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Spectator 23 May (1857) 86/2: To moisten their clay, and grow immortal by drinking .at moisten the clay (v.) under clay, n.
Spectator 23 May (1857) 86/2: To moisten their clay, and grow immortal by drinking . Spectator No. 131 n.p.: Service to the knight. Sir Andrew is grown the cock of the club since he left us, and if he does not return quickly will make every mother’s son of us commonwealth’s men [F&H].at cock, n.3
Spectator No. 153 n.p.: But the cocking young fellow who treads upon the toes of his elders, and the old fool who envies the saucy pride he sees in him, are the objects of our present contempt and derision [F&H].at cocking, adj.
Spectator No. 234 n.p.: He hems after him in the public street, and they must crack a bottle at the next tavern [F&H].at crack a bottle (v.) under crack, v.2
Spectator No. 114 n.p.: What gives the unhappy man this peevishness of spirit is, that his estate is dipped, and is eating out with usury; and yet he has not the heart to sell any part of it [F&H].at dip, v.1
Spectator No. 89 n.p.: He verily believes she will drop him in his old age, if she can find her account in another [F&H].at drop, v.1
Spectator 187 4 Oct. II 57: The famous Girl about Town called Kitty; this Creature [...] was my Mistress in the Days when Keeping was in Fashion.at girl about town (n.) under girl, n.1
Spectator No. 52 n.p.: But being a long-headed gentlewoman, I am apt to imagine she has some further design than you have yet penetrated [F&H].at long-headed, adj.
Spectator No. 47 n.p.: There is a set of merry drolls... whom every nation calls by the name of that dish of meat which it loves best. In Holland they are termed pickled herrings [F&H].at pickle-herring, n.
Spectator No. 47 Apr. 24 n.p.: I mean those circumforaneous Wits whom every Nation calls by the Name of that Dish of Meat which it loves best [...] in Italy maccaronies [...] These merry Wags [...] always appear in a Fool’s Coat, and commit such Blunders and Mistakes in every Step they take, and every Word they utter, as those who listen to them would be ashamed of.at macaroni, n.1
Spectator No. 174 23: Sir Roger, who, I see, thinks he has paid me off, and been very severe on the merchant .at pay off, v.
Spectator No. 130 n.p.: He found his pocket was picked; that being a kind of palmistry at which this race of vermin [gypsies] are very dexterous .at palmistry (n.) under palm, v.
Spectator No. 88 n.p.: My lord bishop swore he would throw her out at window... and my lord duke would have a double mug of purl [F&H].at purl, n.1
Spectator No. 135 10: This Humour [...] which has so miserably curtailed some of our Words, [...] as in mob. rep. pos. incog. and the like.at rep, n.
Spectator No. 108 n.p.: This overgrown runt has struck off his heels, lowered his foretop, and contracted his figure, that he might be looked upon as a member of this newly erected Society [F&H].at runt, n.
Spectator 2: He [...] can inform you from which of the French king’s wenches our wives and daughters had this manner of curling their hair [F&H].at wench, n.
Spectator 504: A biter is one who tells you a thing you have no reason to disbelieve in itself, and perhaps has given you, before he bit you, no reason to disbelieve it for his saying it; and if you give him credit, laughs in your face, and triumphs that he has deceived you [F&H].at bite, v.
Spectator 504: A biter is one who tells you a thing you have no reason to disbelieve in itself, and perhaps has given you, before he bit you, no reason to disbelieve it for his saying it; and if you give him credit, laughs in your face, and triumphs that he has deceived you [F&H].at biter, n.1
Spectator No. 305 n.p.: Provided the conveyance was clean and unsuspected, a youth might afterwards boast of it [F&H].at conveyancing, n.
in Spectator 288 30 Jan. II 360: They whom my Correspondent calls Male-Coquets, shall hereafter be called Fribblers. A Fribbler is one who professes Rapture and Admiration for the Woman to whom he addresses, and dreads Nothing so much as her Consent.at fribble, n.
Spectator No. 264 n.p.: Irus has... given all the intimations he skilfully could of being a close hunks with money [F&H].at hunks, n.
Spectator No. 488 n.p.: He is forced every morning to drink his dish of coffee by itself, without the addition of the Spectator, that used to be better than lace to it [F&H].at laced, adj.
Spectator No. 317 n.p.: Laced coffee is bad for the head [F&H].at laced, adj.
Spectator No. 450 n.p.: I do not remember I was ever overtaken in drink [F&H].at overtaken, adj.
Spectator No. 474 n.p.: I beg you would publish this letter, and let me be known all at once for a queer fellow, and avoided [F&H].at queer fellow (n.) under queer, adj.
Spectator No. 276 3: A very gay [...] old Man...who has been, he tells me, a Scowrer, a Scamperer, a Breaker of Windows [etc.].at scamperer (n.) under scamp, n.
Spectator No. 1564 n.p.: Silkworm [...] was cant among the hackney fraternity for their best customers, women who ramble twice or thrice a week from shop to shop, to turn over all the goods in town without buying anything [F&H].at silkworm (n.) under silk, n.
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Spectator No. 468 6: Thou art no longer to drudge in raising the Mirth of Stupids, who know nothing of thy Merit, for thy Maintenance .at stupid, n.
Spectator 514: It is a superstition with some surgeons who beg the bodies of condemned malefactors, to go to the gaol and bargain for the carcass with the criminal himself... The fellow who killed the officer of Newgate, very forwardly, and like a man who was wiling to deal, told him, ‘Look you, Mr. Surgeon, that little dry fellow, who has been half starved all his life, is now half dead with fear, cannot answer your purpose... Come, for twenty shillings I am your man.’ Says the Surgeon, ‘Done, there’s a guinea.’ This witty rogue took the money, and as soon as he had it in his fist, cries, ‘Bite, I am to be hanged in chains.’ [F&H].at bite!, excl.
Spectator 5 Nov. n.p.: I shall here present my reader [...] with a letter written by young gentleman of the university to his friend [...] ‘Dear Chum’...at chum, n.
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