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The Old Book Collector’s Miscellany choose

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[UK] ‘Dialogue Btwn the Common Secretary & Jealousy’ in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. I 15: She that is fair, lusty and young, / And can commune in terms with defiled tongue, / And will abide whispering in the ear, / Think ye her tail is not light of the sear.
at tail, n.
[UK] Work for Cutlers in C. Hindley Old Book Collector’s Misc. 7: Did you never hear of Cutting Dick.
at cutting Dick (n.) under cutting, n.
[UK] Bartholomew Faire in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 4: Their buttocks walk up and down the Fair very demurely.
at buttock, n.
[UK] Bartholomew Faire in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 5: Showing his art of Legerdemain to the admiration and astonishment of a company of cockloaches.
at cockloche, n.
[UK] Bartholomew Faire in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 5: Among these you shall see a gray goose-cap [...] stand in his booth.
at goose-cap (n.) under goose, n.4
[UK] Bartholomew Faire in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 4: It is his [i.e. a pickpocket’s] high harvest, which is never bad, but when his cart goes up Holborn.
at walk (backwards) up Holborn Hill (v.) under Holborn Hill, n.
[UK] Bartholomew Faire in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 6: These unconscionable exactions [...] made that angle of the Fair too hot for my company.
at hot, adj.
[UK] Bartholomew Faire in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 4: If you take not heed of them [i.e. whores] they will give you fairings with the pox.
at pox, n.1
[UK] Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 14: By frequently [...] practising with the rooks, I went my share in a bubbling.
at bubbling, n.1
[UK] Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 16: Least [...] he might be snatched out of our hands, by some other Craftsby.
at craftsby, n.
[UK] Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 14: The next thing he taught me, was to game.
at game, v.
[UK] Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 15: After I struck a gudgeon, I was sure to hold him, though i suffered him to play a little in the stream.
at gudgeon, n.
[UK] Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 43: Your high-pads do always keep their station upon your greatest and most beaten roads.
at high pad (n.) under high, adj.1
[UK] Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 23: I met with three or four of my old acquaintance, Knights of the Road.
at knight of the road, n.
[UK] Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 14: He [...] made me so proficient at it [i.e. cheating], that I could nick the nicker sometimes.
at nick, v.1
[UK] Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 21: I was generally known as an expert Nicker.
at nicker, n.1
[UK] Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Book Collector’s Misc. [title]: Jackson’s Recantation or, the Life and Death of the Notorious High-way-man Now hanging in Chains at Hampstead. Delivered to a Friend a little before Execution; Wherein is truly discovered the whole Mystery of that Wicked and Fatal profession of padding on the Road.
at padding, n.1
[UK] Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Book Collector’s Misc. She left me something that was none of my own, a swinging clap, which laid me up in pickle above six weeks before I was cured.
at in pickle (adj.) under pickle, n.
[UK] Jackson’s Recantation in C. Hindley Old Book Collector’s Misc. 15: The poor cully was [...] wheedled into play.
at wheadle, v.
[UK] Character of a Town-Gallant in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 10: He is [...] A Baboon usurping Human Shape; or (to use his own silly nasty Phrase) Mine A-se all over.
at my arse! (excl.) under arse, n.
[UK] Character of a Town-Gallant in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 6: Cursing his Doctor for a Quacking Bastard, that understands a Gentleman’s Disease no more than a Farrier.
at bastard, n.
[UK] Character of a Town-gallant in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 4: Thence he posted to one of the Inns of Court, but [...] never read six Lines in Littleton, for he loved a Placket better than a Moot-case, and was more in his Mercer’s Books than in Cokes.
at mercer’s book, n.
[UK] Character of a Town-Gallant in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 5: He says [...] Law a thing fit only for Draggle-tailed Gown-men, that have no way of raising a Fortune.
at draggle-tailed, adj.
[UK] Character of a Town-Gallant in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 6: Cursing his Doctor for a Quacking Bastard, that understands a Gentleman’s Disease no more than a Farrier.
at gentleman’s disease (n.) under gentleman’s, n.
[UK] Character of a Town-Miss in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 1: A Miss is a Name, which the Civility of this Age bestows on one, that our unmannerly Ancestors call’d Whore and Strumpet.
at miss, n.1
[UK] Character of a Town Miss in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 7: An Old Trot, that understands the Town, and goes between Party and Party, and a French Merchant to supply her with Dildo’s.
at trot, n.1
[UK] Character of a Town-Gallant in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 2: Covent Garden, Silk-Gowns, and Wapping Wastcoatiers, are equally his Game.
at waistcoateer, n.
[UK] Character of a Town-Miss in C. Hindley Old Book Collector’s Misc. 2: She is a caterpillar that destroys many a hopeful Young Gentleman in the Blossom.
at caterpillar, n.1
[UK] Character of a Town-Miss in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 2: She is [...] a Parsons comfortable Importance.
at comfortable importance (n.) under comfortable, adj.
[UK] Character of a Town-Miss in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 1: She [i.e. a whore] is an excellent Conveniency for those that have more Money than Wit.
at convenient, n.
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