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[UK] Kentish Gaz. 16 Nov. 3/3: The mob, inured to booze [...] And spirits guzzled down.
at booze, n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 16 Nov. 3/3: Come with thy cart, thy Ketch, thy noose.
at cart, n.1
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 11 June 1/3: He has frequently observed, the collar-days at court have happened at the same time as the collar-days at Tyburn.
at collar day (n.) under collar, n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 16 Nov. 3/3: Close gripe ’em in thy knotted fang.
at fang, n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 16 Nov. 3/3: The very state is rotten — [...] Looks like a herring shotten.
at shotten herring, n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 25 June 4/3: ‘Of Cursing Cuckolds’ A Lord that talk’d of late with idle scorn, / Of some that wore invisbly the horn' / Said ‘he could wish [...] all Cuckolds in the Thames’ [etc.].
at wear (the) horns (v.) under horn, n.1
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 30 Aug. 3/4: The So Much famed Hypo-Drops. For Hyopocondriack Melancholy in Men, and the Hysteric Diseases or Vapour in Women.
at hypo, n.1
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 12 July 2/1: An oaken towel would furnish a more proper argument against the insolence.
at oaken towel, n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 27 Aug. 2/1: These fine squeamish Madams [...] fall to the course dish with as good an appetite as any Doll Common .
at doll, n.1
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 27 Aug. 2/1: Some officers of the army [...] had unloaded themselves of their honey in some of the hives of love .
at hive, n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 27 Aug. 2/1: Some officers of the army [...] had unloaded themselves of their honey in some of the hives of love .
at honey, n.1
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 13 Feb. 2/3: Show me that glib speaker, / Who her red rag, / In gibe can wag.
at red rag, n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 25 Mar. n.p.: A Farce [...] called The Crisis; or What You Please? [...] Brainsick, Mr James; Probable, Mr Parks; Boorish, Mr Phelps; Princock, Mr Richland.
at princock, n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 23 Nov. 3/2: It has been deemed more politic [...] to come directly to an open direction of war with France, than to suffer that court any longer to fob us off with faithfless assurances of amity.
at fob someone off (v.) under fob, v.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 21 May 4/3: Dignam, therefore as well as other elevated defrauders, know what they have to depend on if they once enter on board the floating academy.
at academy, n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 14 July 2/2: In my good neighbour [...] the pompous grizzle [wig] has been laid aside for the spruce club [...] indelicately stiled a Newgate knocker.
at Newgate knocker (n.) under Newgate, n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 18 Sept. 2/1: Great ex[ectations were formed from each event. In what did expectation end? Bot the one and the other ended in — smoke.
at smoke, n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 9 May 4/1: The mode of their fighting was scientific: the former stood boldly up, and stopped the blows of his adversary.
at scientific (adj.) under science, n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 3 May 2/1: Tax on Dogs [...] a large and respectable meeting of the lap-eared species was held at the Bow-wow tavern.
at bow-wow, n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 2 Oct. 2/3: The hair dishevelled and dirty, ornamented with a thrum-cap tied round with a red garter.
at thrum-cap, n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 21 Aug. 1/2: This day is published [...] A Rod in Brine or a Tickler for tom Paine. In answer to his first pamphlet.
at rod in piss (n.) under rod, n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 6 July 2/2: Mr Colman of the Veterinary Coollege [...] pronounced him to be what is termed a Roarer.
at roarer, n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 31 Oct. 2/1: A General once in a woundy brawl was sent out to take a trip, With horses and soldiers, and cannon and all.
at woundy, adv.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 31 Aug. 2/5: Mr. Russell [...] occasionally resorts to the well known flash-house, in Moor-street, to listen to conversation ol those who resort there.
at flash house (n.) under flash, adj.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 28 Sept. 4/5: Wit in placards the hat adorns ... / of husbands, proud to wear their horns.
at wear (the) horns (v.) under horn, n.1
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 6 Apr. 4/2: I have just rammed home a jolly 12-pounder, as a present to Johnny Crappo.
at Johnny Crapose (n.) under johnny-, pfx
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 16 Apr. 3/5: She had the coin, had she? the corianders, perhaps, as you call them in this country? I mean a woman of property.
at coriander (seed), n.
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 27 Sept. 3/3: Johnson said to him, producing [...] some ‘ruffles,’ handcuffs, ‘If you make any resistance I will blow your brains out’.
at ruffles, n.1
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 1 Feb. 3/3: Mrs Surmise [...] dearly loves a little dish of chat.
at dish of chat (n.) under dish, n.1
[UK] Kentish Gaz. 4 Jan. 4/1: To see Jack ketch, rope-tying, roguish elf, with necklace ornament, like apendant locket.
at necklace, n.
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