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Leeds Intelligencer 3 June 3/2: A Rumour of Peace strikes a Damp on our Publicans and Sinners.at sinner, n.
Leeds Intelligencer 3 June 3/2: A Rumour of Peace strikes a Damp on our Publicans and Sinners. Leeds Intelligencer 21 Dec. 1/3: [The Peace Officers] so carried them off, to the great Joy of the Knights of the Rainbow there present.at ...the rainbow under knight of the..., n.
Leeds Intelligencer 26 Apr. 1/2: Instead of going amog the Crew drinking Flip [...] he employed his whole Time in manning [...] the ship.at flip, n.1
Leeds intelligencer 25 Mar. 2/3: Here lies Thurot, bold buccanier [...] / Who weary of this humble station, / To raise the glory of his nation / Turn’d cat in pan.at cat in (the) pan (n.) under cat, n.1
Leeds Intelligencer 19 Apr. 4/1: It is held to be rather a desire of kicking up a riot against persons than measures.at kick up a riot (v.) under kick up, v.
Leeds Intelligencer 17 Feb. 4/3: I am afraid of my wife’s tongue, but when I’m bobbish and jolly, I can face Beelzebub.at bobbish, adj.
Leeds Intelligencer 8 Dec. 4/1: Yahoos themselves might learn to be polite.at yahoo, n.1
Leeds Intelligencer 15 Aug. 3/1: Odzookers, in every station / They all Politicians would be.at odzooks! (excl.) under ods, n.
Leeds Intelligencer 8 May 4/2: Come on, you rascals, you bloody backs, you lobster scoundrels, fire if you dare, God damn you.at god-damn, v.
Leeds Intelligencer 19 June 3/3: Imports [...] Southampton, [...] hemp and lathwood. Pompey, [...] tar, turpentine, slaves and rice.at Pompey, n.
Leeds intelligencer 11 Feb. 3/3: An honest Chimney-sweeper tricked a farmer out of twenty pounds [...] The too credulous country-man, supposing him to be a clergyman by his garb, took everything he said, for gospel.at clergyman, n.
Leeds intelligencer 20 July 2/2: A Lady of Pleasure about town well known by the fictitious title of Lady M— [etc.].at lady of pleasure (n.) under lady, n.
Leeds Intelligencer 23 Feb. 2/2: He was forcibly seized, amnd [...] was pretty thumpingly bumped.at thumpingly, adv.
Leeds Intelligencer 6 May 2/1: We learn from Balinrobe in the county of mayo, that the Gaol of that town was broke open [...] and every person therein set at liberty, by a gang of [...] Peep-of-day boys.at peep o’ day boy, n.
Leeds intelligencer 8 July 4/2: That auspicious morn, which [...] rewarded the great Triumvirs Hancock, Adams, Lee, with the high honours of the Triple Tree.at triple tree, n.
Leeds intelligencer 1 Feb. 3/3: Label of a Gin Bottle [...] ‘No less a curse this vehicle contains — Fire to the mind, and poison to the veins’ Anti-Tipple.at tipple, n.
Leeds intelligencer 20 Nov. 4/1: So many French Rgues, deserving to swing, / Are collar’d by Ribbons instead of a String . Upon Tyburn-tree.at Tyburn tree (n.) under Tyburn, n.
Leeds intelligencer 20 Nov. 4/1: So many French Rgues, deserving to swing, / Are collar’d by Ribbons instead of a String / Upon Tyburn-tree.at Tyburn string (n.) under Tyburn, n.
Leeds Intelligencer 13 Apr. 3/4: The president [...] is a knight of the thimble, and the vice-president a son of St Crispin.at ...the thimble under knight of the..., n.
Leeds Intelligencer 15 Nov. 4/1: The Country is ruin’d as sure as a gun.at sure as a gun under sure as..., phr.
Leeds Intelligencer 1 Mar. 3/4: I need not premise here the cause of this bother; ’Tis know from one end of the realm to the other.at bother, n.
Leeds Intelligencer 20 Aug. 3/2: He kept drinking; he broke open the kitchen windows, and was very obstropolous.at obstropolous, adj.
Leeds Intelligencer 27 Nov. 3/5: No person, herefater afflicted with the tooth-ache, need hesitate for one moment to have the torturing fang removed.at fang, n.
Leeds Intelligencer 11 Aug. 2/2: In all his transactions he contrives to get money [...] Mr Stocks is ever uppermost, - in the finest possible condition - in full feather.at in full feather under feather, n.
Leeds Intelligencer 11 Oct. 2/6: Our neighbours of the Mercury were hard-pushed on Saturday. They swagger, threaten, and drivel [...] but come out very lamely.at hard-pushed (adj.) under hard, adj.
Leeds Intelligencer 23 Apr. n.p.: Neither has Morpeth come ‘up to the scratch’; They’re only ‘half-bred’ and are easy to ‘cow’.at cow, v.1
Leeds Intelligencer 23 Apr. n.p.: For sumphs such as Morpeth no man cares a fig.at sonofabitch, n.
Leeds Intelligencer 23 Apr. n.p.: Come tip us your ‘mawley’ — no gammon, dear Dan.at tip one’s mitt (v.) under tip, v.3
Leeds Intelligencer 14 May 4/2: I see three Hottentots havce been appionted Justices at the cape of Good Hope [...] Alderman Tottie’s case is the worst.at tottie, n.1
Leeds intelligencer 5 Jan. 7/4: Pistols were repeatedly fired off; and indeed Mr Stephens requested them to give over ‘cracking them’ [...] he wished them desist as the noise annoyaed him.at crack, v.1
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