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The Silent Woman choose

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[UK] Jonson Silent Woman IV ii: Wiues are nasty, sluttish Animalls.
at animal, n.1
[UK] Jonson Silent Woman IV i: All blabbing is taken away, when shee comes to be a part of the crime.
at blab, v.
[UK] Jonson Silent Woman IV v: Your two butter-teeth.
at butter teeth (n.) under butter, n.1
[UK] Jonson Silent Woman Prologue: Some for Lords, Knights, Squires, Some for your waiting-wench, and Citie-wires.
at city wire (n.) under city, n.
[UK] Jonson Silent Woman V iv: You have lurch’d your friends of the better halfe of the Garland, by concealing this part of the plot.
at lurch, v.1
[UK] Jonson Silent Woman I i: When wee come to haue gray hair, and weake hammes, moist eyes, and shrunke members.
at member, n.1
[UK] Jonson Silent Woman IV v: cle.: Shall I goe fetch the Ladies to the Catastrophe? [...] daup.: By no mortall meanes.
at mortal, adj.1
[UK] Jonson Silent Woman IV iv: A very Sharke, hee set me i’the nicke t’other night at Primero.
at shark, n.
[UK] Jonson Silent Woman IV v: ’Slight, let him rage.
at ’slight!, excl.
[UK] Jonson Silent Woman IV v: He went away in snuffe.
at take snuff (v.) under snuff, n.2
[UK] Jonson Silent Woman IV iv: How these swabbers talke!
at swabber, n.
[UK] Jonson Silent Woman II iv: Hee’ll swallow it like Creame.
at swallow, v.
[UK] Jonson Silent Woman V iii: O ’twill bee full and twanging!
at twanging, adj.
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