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N.Y. Tribune 21 Feb. 2/2: He prudently resolved to swallow laudanum, which he did in such quantity as made him woefully sick, when he ‘cast up his accounts,’ poison and all.at cast up one’s accounts (v.) under cast, v.
N.Y. Tribune 21 Feb. 2/2: He prudently resolved to swallow laudanum, which he did in such quantity as made him woefully sick, when he ‘cast up his accounts,’ poison and all. N.Y. Tribune 20 Oct. 3/2: Graham’s Ladies’ and Gentleman’s Magazine. Contents [...] ‘The Moonlight Flitting or the mistake‘ by Eliza Van Horn Ellis.at moonlight flitting, n.
N.-Y. Trib. 1 Nov. n.p.: Wall street, it appears, is infested with mock-auction shops,–a country-man was done for at No. 15, to the tune of twenty-four dollars.at done, adj.
N.-Y. Trib. 26 Nov. n.p.: Very well, gentlemen! Gouge Mr. Crosby out of the seat, if you think it wholesome to do it [B].at gouge, v.1
N.-Y. Trib. 10 Dec. n.p.: This is a clean plain gouge of this sum out of the people’s strong box [DA].at gouge, n.
N.-Y. Trib. 3 Dec. n.p.: The people may whistle for protection, and put up with what shinplaster rags they can get [B].at rag, n.1
N.Y. Dly Tribune 6 Feb. 1/3: It is well enough to intercept anything coming down perpendicularly, but ‘slantendicularly’ as friend Slick says — no.at slantindicular, adj.
N.Y. Dly Tribune 10 Mar. 2/4: To-day Mr Barlow — not ‘Billy’ of knife memory, but equally celebrated in his way — made a speech.at billy barlow, n.2
N.-Y. Trib. 2 Aug. 2/5: A newsboy the other day [...] had got stuck with a lot of papers on hand.at stuck with (adj.) under stuck, adj.
N.-Y. Trib. Aug. n.p.: But it is possible that we may, at some future time, go to war with England--her writers and speakers having spoken disparagingly of us, while her actors, half-pay officers and other travelling gentry carry their heads rather high in passing through our country—for which ‘arrogant’ demeanor we are bound to give her a whaling! [B].at whaling, n.
N.-Y. Trib. 4 Mar. n.p.: [They] will cave in ... though they talk loud against it now [B].at cave in (v.) under cave, v.
N.-Y. Trib. n.p.: The Whig candidate must be fair and square on all the great questions before the country. He would speak not of his own course, but the Whig people could not go it blind [B].at go it blind (v.) under go it, v.
N.-Y. Trib. 11 Nov. n.p.: Here is a whole string of Democrats, all of whom had been going the whole hog for Cass from the jump [F&H].at jump, n.
N.-Y. Trib. n.p.: We do not believe that Messrs. Buchanan and Walker have resigned their seats in the cabinet. There has been a spat of course; but there may be many more before either of the Secretaries will resign $6000 a year [B].at spat, n.
N.-Y. Trib. n.p.: President Polk in his message goes it strong for the Sub-treasury [B].at go (it) strong (v.) under strong, adv.
N.-Y. Trib. n.p.: A pretty tall excitement came off at Coney Island on Saturday [B].at tall, adj.
N.-Y. Trib. 10 Apr. n.p.: Had the Free States been manly enough, true enough, to enact the Wilmot Proviso as to all present or future territories of the Union, we should have had just the same didoes cut up by the chivalry that we have witnessed, and with no more damage to the Union [F&H].at cut up a dido, v.
N.-Y. Trib. 23 Nov. n.p.: Gamblers, emigrant-robbers, baggage-smashers, and all the worst classes of the city [W&F].at baggage-smasher (n.) under baggage, n.
N.Y. Trib. 31 May 5/4: Another hop is looked forward to [...] the ball of the ‘bone-hunters,’ alias rag-pickers.at bone-grubber (n.) under bone, n.1
N.Y. Tribune 22 Oct. 6/1: It was a dirty big rat, bigger nor the cat herself.at dirty, adv.
N.Y. Trib. 31 May 5/4: Another hop is looked forward to [...] the ball of the ‘bone-hunters,’ alias rag-pickers.at hop, n.1
N.Y. Trib. 31 May 5/4: The male portion of the company consisted of butcher-boys, wagon-boys [...] shoulder-hitters, a few loafers and [...] shanghais.at shanghai, n.1
N.Y. Dly Tribune 29 June 6/1: Aristocrats: swell-heads I call them, Sir - nothing but swell-heads.at swellhead, n.2
N.Y. Dly Tribune 5 Mar. 3/6: I’ll be goldarned if it wasn’t.at goldarned, adj.
N.Y. Trib. 12 Feb. 3/2: The third [...] is what is termed a ‘horse sharp’.at horse sharp (n.) under sharp, n.1
N.Y. Trib. 12 Feb. 3/2: The square gambler abhors the ‘skinner’.at skinner, n.1
N.Y. Trib. 12 Feb. 3/2: This is the worst of all the skinning games of Broadway.at skinning game (n.) under skinning, n.2
N.Y. Trib. 12 Feb. 3/2: A complete list of [...] the ‘skinning houses’ — that is, places where the game is so played [...] that no man can win a bet unless permitted by the dealer.at skinning house (n.) under skinning, n.2
N.Y. Trib. 12 Feb. 3/2: The square gambler abhors the ‘skinner’.at square, adj.
N.-Y. Trib. 10 Aug. n.p.: I have had to ante up at the rate of $200.at ante (up), v.
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