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(con. 1600s) Leyton Hall I 233: The man that stood beside thee is old Crookfinger, the most notorious setter, barnacle and foist in the city.at barnacle, n.1
(con. 1600s) Leyton Hall I 233: The man that stood beside thee is old Crookfinger, the most notorious setter, barnacle and foist in the city. (con. 1600s) Leyton Hall I 236: ‘A barnacle—a foist, I think you call him—hath eased me of my purse.’ ‘Oh!’ said Honest Joe [...] ‘So clapperclawed already? I trust by a ben cull of my ken.’.at bene cull (n.) under bene, adj.
(con. 1600s) Leyton Hall I 236: ‘A barnacle—a foist, I think you call him—hath eased me of my purse.’ ‘Oh!’ said Honest Joe [...] ‘So clapperclawed already? I trust by a ben cull of my ken.’.at clapperclaw, v.
(con. 1600s) Leyton Hall I 241: Magnus was seated [...] at the back of the tavern, compounding his morning draught of cock-my-cap.at cock-my-cap (n.) under cock, v.4
(con. 1600s) Leyton Hall I 237: Tabitha and her young master soon reached Bread-street after this escape from the dummerer (as he was called in Pedlar’s French).at dummerer, n.
(con. 1600s) Leyton Hall I 233: The man that stood beside thee is old Crookfinger; the most notorious setter, barnacle, and foist in the City.at foist, n.2
(con. 1600s) Leyton Hall I 234: They be cant names for such thieves [...] It was called, I remember, Pedlar’s French.at pedlar’s French, n.
(con. 1600s) Leyton Hall I 264: Ifeekins! I am losing my head.at i’fecks!, excl.
(con. 1600s) Leyton Hall I 236: A barnacle—a foist, I think you call him—hath eased me of my purse.’ ‘Oh!’ said Honest Joe [...] ‘So clapperclawed already? I trust by a ben cull of my ken.’.at ken, n.1
(con. 1600s) Leyton Hall I 264: She hath been here and tells me thine old light o’ love, Mistress Leyton, is in town!at light o’ love, n.
Leyton Hall 43: Maud is wrong [...] to hold these morning levees of light-brained idlers when I am absent.at lightheaded (adj.) under lighthead, n.
(con. 1600s) Leyton Hall I 236: I shall be main lad to see thee.at main, adj.
(con. 1600s) Leyton Hall I 233: The man that stood beside thee is old Crookfinger, the most notorious setter, barnacle and foist in the City.at setter, n.1
Leyton Hall I 125: The fellow roared out some doggerel which expressd his supreme contempt for [...] Tubthumpers.at tub-thumper, n.
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