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[UK] letter in J. Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 111: I have had the gout; and other things in family matters has been the cause of my not seeing you. [Ibid.] 112: The cant phrase of family matters is well understood by thieves and their associates, being used by them when alluding to their thieving concerns.
at family, n.1
[UK] letter in J. Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 112: A tinney has broke out as hot as hell.
at tinny, n.1
[UK] J. Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 35: Damn your eyes, we will come when we like. Do you think we shall ask such a bitch as you?
at bitch, n.1
[UK] J. Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 30: Damn your eyes, you bloody thief [...] I will frisk you and your crib.
at crib, n.1
[UK] J. Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 30: Damn your eyes, you bloody thief.
at damn (someone’s) eyes! (excl.) under damn, v.
[UK] J. Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 91: I set persons to sound what are called family men; but they were wholly ignorant of such a character.
at family man (n.) under family, n.1
[UK] J. Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 93: He was an excellent customer at hazard or backgammon. Perry said he had been told he was an excellent Flat, and often lost large sums of money.
at flat, n.2
[UK] J. Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 30: Damn your eyes, you bloody thief [...] I will frisk you and your crib too.
at frisk, v.2
[UK] J. Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 40: You know he must not be brought into the office with irons on.
at irons, n.
[UK] J. Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 87: Palmer’s agent [...] determined to transact business in their line.
at line, n.1
[UK] J. Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 32: Well, damn your eyes, I have nailed you now.
at nail, v.
[UK] J. Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 85: He had amassed a very considerable fortune by this fraudulent business, and particularly by negotiating stolen bills, called smashing thick paper.
at paper, n.
[UK] J. Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 89: The deluded tradesman has no clue by which he can find out the sharpers.
at sharper, n.
[UK] John Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 85: He had amassed a very considerable fortune by this fraudulent business, and particularly by negotiating stolen bills, called smashing thick paper.
at smash, v.2
[UK] J. Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 112: By the Tinney is meant, that a discovery has taken place.
at tinny, n.1
[UK] J. Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 54: Damn my eyes, we will try it on with you.
at try it on with (v.) under try, v.
[UK] J. Mackcoull Abuses of Justice 33: Nothing short of my death should appease him, and of that he was now certain, for that I should as surely be twisted.
at twist, v.
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