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Nocturnal Revels I Dedication: The treachery, perfidy, and stratagems of what are stiled Lady Abbesses, are depicted in their genuine colours.at abbess, n.
Nocturnal Revels I Dedication: The treachery, perfidy, and stratagems of what are stiled Lady Abbesses, are depicted in their genuine colours. Nocturnal Revels I 26: A most implicit faith in the Mother Abbess, whose decrees were irrevocable.at abbess, n.
Nocturnal Revels I 13: Peg Woffington [...] often sacrificed at the altar of Venus in this chapel.at altar of hymen, n.
Nocturnal Revels 2 72: She soon became a come-at-able piece at Haddock’s, and the rest of the Bagnios about the Garden [...] 2 141: [He] roamed at large amongst all the come-at-able Beauties and Demireps within the Bills of Mortality.at come at, v.
Nocturnal Revels 2 214: It [i.e. a poem] was a stupid, insipid, balderdash performance.at balderdash, n.
Nocturnal Revels I 51: Charlotte’s bill of fare [...] A Bona Roba for Lord Spasm [...] barge-a—se Wilson, from Rupert-Street.at barge-arse (n.) under barge, n.1
Nocturnal Revels 2 61: His Grace thought it a disgrace to have any connexion [...] with anyone that was not a profesed cricketer. This [...] accounts for his late intrigue with Lady D—y, who [...] can handle a batt and knock the balls about, with almost any Peer in England.at bat, n.2
Nocturnal Revels I 72: How many oaths have these Bog-trotters sworn?at bogtrotter (n.) under bog, n.3
Nocturnal Revels I 51: Charlotte’s bill of fare [...] A Bona Roba for Lord Spasm.at bona roba, n.
Nocturnal Revels I 52: Lady Loveit [...] desires to be [...] well mounted this evening [...] Captain O’Thunder, or Sawney Rawbone.at bone, n.1
Nocturnal Revels I 9: The Buck took his doxy to a bagnio; and the Blood carried off his Moll in triumph.at buck, n.1
Nocturnal Revels I 57: ‘I know of no such rotten [i.e. diseased] cattle as you talk of’.at cattle, n.
Nocturnal Revels I 13: Peg Woffington [...] often sacrificed at the altar of Venus in this chapel.at chapel, n.
Nocturnal Revels 2 20: [brothel advert] She must get up small things, even large ones occasionally, understand clear-starching without clapping , and know [how] to make standing crust.at clap, v.1
Nocturnal Revels I 205: Lady H—ton was corked in the twinlking of an eye; but found fault that the Corks were not longer, and large enough for her calibre.at cork, n.1
Nocturnal Revels I 205: Lady H—ton was corked in the twinlking of an eye; but found fault that the Corks were not longer, and large enough for her calibre.at cork, v.2
Nocturnal Revels I 29: She fitted up a house in elegant stile; engaged some of the first-rate filles de joye in London; employed a Surgeon.at daughter of joy (n.) under daughter, n.
Nocturnal Revels 2 244: The trees had been lopt and the dirty acres mortgaged.at dirty acres (n.) under dirty, adj.
Nocturnal Revels I 61: Poll Nimblewrist without her stays, and her duds hanging below her apron strong.at duds, n.2
Nocturnal Revels 2 181: We beg, however, that the reader may not put a false contstruction upon this last expression [i.e. Fr. for ‘a lit fuse’], and think that there was the least reason to suspect a firebrand on either side.at firebrand (n.) under fire, n.
Nocturnal Revels 2 252: She soon recovered most of her customers; as [...] her’s [sic] was now one of the best Flesh-Markets in town.at flesh market (n.) under flesh, n.
Nocturnal Revels I 50: A Kitty Young, or a Nancy Feathers, being new faces to the fumbling Cits, they could easily be passed off for Vestals.at fumble, v.
Nocturnal Revels I 15: Some of the first-rate Thais’s who afterwards figured in gay life, were trained in her seminary.at gay, adj.
Nocturnal Revels 2 20: [brothel advert] She must get up small things, even large ones occasionally, understand clear-starching without clapping , and know [how] to make standing crust.at get it up, v.
Nocturnal Revels 2 75: She soon obtained as pretty an assortment of fresh goods as could be found in London.at goods, n.
Nocturnal Revels I 13: [in punning synonym] While my Lord was enjoying Chloe in one room, her Ladyship was cornuting her caro sposo with a pair of the largest antlers she could procure.at horn, n.1
Nocturnal Revels 2 235: [of heterosexual ‘riding’] Lady L—r is learning the Manege à la St. George with her Groom, to recover her skill in horsewomanship.at horsewoman (n.) under horse, n.
Nocturnal Revels I 15: She [i.e. a bawd] generally had some of the best Pieces in the Garden at her house.at house, n.1
Nocturnal Revels I 66: Mr. Bounce — you keep a Tippling-house for disorderly people.at tippling-house, n.
Nocturnal Revels 2 212: ‘Well (said his Grace) [...] I can’t find it [i.e. a joke] out’ ‘No my Lord (splied she) and what is worse — I could not find it in’.at in, adv.
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