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Worcs. Jrnl 8 Dec. 4/3: They insisted the native of Shamrockshire should explain.at Shamrockshire, n.
Worcs. Jrnl 8 Dec. 4/3: They insisted the native of Shamrockshire should explain. Worcester Jrnl 22 Feb. 4/2: He is at present confined in a strong cell in Plymouth Clink, doubly ironed.at clink, n.1
Worcester Jrnl 15 Dec. 4/1: The wife of a celebrated knight of the needle.at ...the needle under knight of the..., n.
Worcs. Jrnl 25 Apr. 4/2: Such Patriots, like tjhe Brummagem Delegates, generally contrive to get their travelling expenses paid.at Brummagem, n.
Worcester Jrnl 21 Apr. 3/6: [They] found themselves in Newport Street, where, having again added to their store of ‘liquid damnation,’ as our friend the celebrated Brummagem Vulcan would call it, a quarrel ensued.at Brummagem, n.
Worcester Jrnl 9 Nov. 3/1: O’Connell is surely bested, / His tricks will no longer prevail.at best, v.
Worcester Jrnl 28 Nov. 4/1: A gentleman asked Justice Parsons the definition of keel-haul. He replied, ‘It is under-going a great hard-ship’.at keel-haul, v.
Worcester Jrnl 8 Jan. 4/5: [Is] Sir Robert [...] falsifying his own declarations [...] with the hope and expectation of thus ingeniously possessing himself of some of the dirty acres of our nobility?at dirty acres (n.) under dirty, adj.
Worcester Jrnl 31 Aug. 3/5: While he was thus [asleep] there came by a knight of the pad who had himself happy by taking the horse [...] and riding away.at ...the pad under knight of the..., n.
Worcester Jrnl 20 June 1/1: He does not show himself in any of the towns where there is a military post, and the Chinese have not courage to beat up his quarters.at beat up (the quarters of), v.
Worcs. Jrnl 21 Feb. 3/5: Anne Gullies, who was formerly Smith's chère amie but had ‘buried’—or, in other words, discarded her.at bury, v.
Worcs. Jrnl 21 Feb. 3/5: Hollad [...] said to his ‘pal’ — ‘The mollisher is sugared’ (i.e.) Wood had some money about her.at mollisher, n.
Worcs. Jrnl 21 Feb. 3/5: Hollad [...] said to his ‘pal’ — ‘The mollisher is sugared’ (i.e.) Wood had some money about her.at sugared (adj.) under sugar, n.1
Worcester Jrnl 23 Sept. 4/1: A gentleman [...] observed in a seat before him a lean slab-sided Yankee.at slab-sides (n.) under slab, n.
Worcester Jrnl 15 Oct. 8/1: The ‘tormentors’ of the catgut were publicly engaged.at tormentor of catgut, n.
Worcester Jrnl 15 Oct. 8/1: [headline] Trolling in the Avon.at troll, v.
Worcester Jrnl 10 Jan. 7/2: Prosecutor admitted having struck the prisoner with a stirrup leather [...] The chairman: Better known as ‘strap-oil’.at strap-oil, n.
Worcester Jrnl 8 Jan. 3/4: I gave P.C. Stone directions to search the house [...] and there Stone found upon a shelf, a barking-iron.at barking iron, n.
Worcester Jrnl 18 Aug. 3/1: When we prance in Rotten Row / [...] / There we scan, bold as brass, / Fast young ladies.at bold as brass (adj.) under bold as..., adj.
Worcester Jrnl 4 July 5/3: The member for Sheffield [...] appears to have been so dazzled by his visit to the Tuileries as to have had his characteristically sharp faculties completely obfusticated.at obfusticated, adj.
Worcester Jrnl 24 Apr. 8/5: You are a shotten herring an’ you say nay.at shotten herring, n.
Worcester Jrnl 29 Jan. 3/6: The last time they met they were twitted with having met to lay up in lavender. Ald. Willis [...] had, however, shown by his presence that he was not yet laid up in lavender.at lay (up) in lavender, v.
Worcester Jrnl 27 Apr. 5/1: The scorcher is he who tries to make the pace hot for any wheelman who may be in his company.at scorcher, n.
Worcester Jrnl 27 Apr. 5/1: The scorcher is he who tries to make the pace hot for any wheelman who may be in his company.at wheelman, n.
Worcester Jrnl 27 Jan. 2/5: They knocked us about with sticks , and one said to the other “Chivey it him, chivey it him.” This meant stab me’‘.at chivvy, v.2
Worcester Jrnl 1 June 5/5: The Chairman feared they were going to get the sticky end of the wedge.at get the sticky end (v.) under end, n.
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