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[UK] R. Howard The Committee IV i: Out upon the precise Baboon.
at baboon, n.
[UK] R. Howard The Committee V i: I’le put you, Sir, where you shall have worse liquor, Then your Bonny-Clabber.
at bonny-clapper, n.
[UK] R. Howard The Committee IV i: Who wou’d have believ’d that we Shou’d have liv’d to have seen Obadiah overcome with the Creature?
at creature, the, n.
[UK] R. Howard The Committee IV i: Ferret him, or he’l never bolt.
at ferret, v.
[UK] R. Howard The Committee III i: c.bl. How, Kitchen-stuff-acquaintance! c.car. Yes, Mrs. Day that commanded the Party in the Hackney-Coach was my Father’s Kitchen-maid.
at kitchen stuff (n.) under kitchen, n.1
[UK] R. Howard The Committee II i: These muck-worms will have Earth enough to stop their mouths with one day.
at muck-worm, n.
[UK] R. Howard The Committee V i: Put forth some good words, as they use to Shake Oats when they go to catch a skittish Jade.
at oats, n.2
[UK] R. Howard The Committee IV i: Who wou’d have believ’d that we Shou’d have liv’d to have seen Obadiah overcome with the Creature?
at Obadiah, n.
[UK] R. Howard The Committee IV i: Two honest Gentlemen took care of him, seeing Him thus devoutly over-taken.
at overtaken, adj.
[UK] R. Howard The Committee III i: c.bl.: How, Kitchen-stuff-acquaintance! c.car.: Yes, Mrs. Day that commanded the Party in the Hackney-Coach was my Father’s Kitchen-maid.
at stuff, n.
[UK] R. Howard The Committee II i: Whist, whist, Prethee have some pitty?
at whisht!, excl.
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