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Spirit of the Times (NY) 11 Feb. 2/3: It is greatly to be feared that some of our Benedicts were deeply smitten [i.e. by women not their wives].at benedict, n.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 11 Feb. 2/3: It is greatly to be feared that some of our Benedicts were deeply smitten [i.e. by women not their wives]. Spirit of the Times (NY) 4 Feb. 3/1: A certain gentleman [...] was completely ‘blown’ and ‘cut’ as decidely vulgar.at blown, adj.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 14 Apr. 2/3: Paul Pry — Barely is our sight gladdened by this [i.e. a newspaper] from Washington but some ‘body snatcher’ has him in his pocket and makes tracks.at body-snatcher, n.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 4 Feb. 2/4: I’ll bet you this ere watch against your bulls-eye.at bull’s eye, n.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 14 Apr. 4/2: [of the failed abduction and murder of a child] If this is a case of ‘Burking’ and we have good reason to think it so, then none are safe.at burke, v.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 7 Apr. 2/3: [They] have turned ‘Burkers’ and ‘body-snatchers’.at burker, n.
Spirit of the Times (N.Y.) 21 Mar. 2: One fish [...] had no less than fifteen nutmegs in his clam basket, and others nearly as many [HDAS].at clam-basket (n.) under clam, n.1
Spirit of the Times (NY) 4 Feb. 1/2: Darken his daylights [...] make the sun shine through him.at let the daylight into/through (v.) under daylight, n.1
Spirit of the Times (NY) 4 Feb. 1/2: Darken his daylights [...] make the sun shine through him.at darken someone’s daylights (v.) under daylights, n.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 14 Apr. 2/6: ‘Gas so (said Ned) I forgot my fool’s dress’.at gadso! (excl.) under gad, n.1
Spirit of the Times (NY) 14 Apr. 2/6: ‘Gas so (said Ned) I forgot my fool’s dress’.at gad!, excl.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 11 Feb. 2/1: A ‘village schoolmaster,’ a ‘country grammar grinder’.at gerund-grinder, n.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 4 Feb. 1/2: Never mind lee shores; douse his glims [...] give him a broadside.at douse someone’s glim (v.) under glim, n.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 14 Apr. 2/3: Niblo must now get up something new, or he’s a ‘gone sucker’.at gone, adj.1
Spirit of the Times (NY) 11 Feb. 1/3: I swallowed quarts of ague drops, / But ache my grinder would.at grinder, n.1
Spirit of the Times (NY) 11 Feb. 2/3: John Bull [...] protested it [i.e. swallowing acids, fire-eating, etc.] was ‘all humbug’.at humbug, n.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 4 Feb. 1/2: Tip him a second edition of Mendoza — let out his red ink.at red ink, n.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 14 Apr. 1/1: This caption [...] has either been introduced by some preparatory remarks by the ‘knights of the quill’ [etc].at ...the quill under knight of the..., n.
in Spirit of the Times (N.Y.) 4 Apr. 3: They can [...] ‘knock over a pint of whisky’ with any ‘Mike Fink’ of Kentucky or Mississippi.at knock over, v.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 4 Feb. 3/1: It [i.e. tobacco smoking] will to the ‘knowing ones’ [...] account for the breaking off of three ‘splendid matches’ [...] in our first circles.at knowing, adj.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 4 Feb. 1/2: Trim his jacket — lace him — aim at his fifth button.at lace, v.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 4 Feb. 1/2: Now my lad of wax [...] leather him soundly.at leather, v.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 31 Mar. 2/4: We suppose that members of the company are ‘loggerheads’. We hope better for them.at loggerhead, n.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 14 Apr. 2/2: McKenzie attempted to get up another monkey show [...] but the rotten eggs, we hear, flew in such showers [...] that he had to fly in disgrace.at monkey show (n.) under monkey, n.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 14 Apr. 4/1: An Irishman [...] landing at Philaelphia was assisted on shore by a negro who spoke to Patrick in Irish.at Patrick, n.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 31 Mar. 2/3: [P]ulling out our pocket pistol and luncheon, we enjoyed a good dinner.at pocket pistol (n.) under pocket, n.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 14 Apr. 4/1: Well might the poet say to the black boy, ‘take phsyic, Pomp’.at Pompey, n.
Spirit of the Times (N.Y.) 28 Apr. 3/1: He ‘rowed’ Stanberry ‘up a salt creek,’ and is now being tried by the House of Representatives for his unlucky propensity [DA].at row someone up Salt River (v.) under Salt River, n.
Spirit of the Times (NY) 4 Feb. 2/6: [I]t was found absolutely necessary to put the screws, alias hand-cuffs, upon him.at screw, n.1
Spirit of the Times (NY) 31 Mar. 2/3: [of a fish] First the gentle nibble, and then the desperate lunge of a real ‘scrowger’.at scrouger, n.1
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