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[UK] Jonson Case Is Altered IV iv: Nothing but hair [...] This bear’s skin.
at bearskin (n.) under bear, n.
[UK] Jonson Case Is Altered II iv: By your favour, sweet bullies, give them room.
at bully, n.1
[UK] Jonson Case Is Altered IV iv: This bear’s skin, this heath, this furze-bush.
at furze-bush, n.
[UK] Jonson Case Is Altered V ii: Hey, catso! catch him alive.
at catso!, excl.
[UK] Jonson Case Is Altered III i: Mischief and hell! what is this man?
at hell!, excl.
[UK] Jonson Case Is Altered I i: Od’slid, man, service is ready to go up. [Ibid.] III i: Rachel! odslight, come to me.
at ods, n.
[UK] Jonson Case Is Altered I i: Od’s so, hear, man! a pox on you!
at odso! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] Jonson Case Is Altered III i: Od’s pity, here’s another.
at ods pity! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] Jonson Case Is Altered II i: O, wondrous pelf That which makes all men false, is true itself.
at pelf, n.
[UK] Jonson Case Is Altered IV iv: Smell! smell a rat.
at smell a rat (v.) under smell, v.
[UK] Jonson Case Is Altered I ii: I have such an odd pretty apprehension of his humour, methinks, that I am e’en tickled with the conceit of it.
at tickled, adj.
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