1859 Matsell Vocabulum 74: rocked in a stone cradle Born in a prison.at rocked in a stone kitchen, phr.
1859 ‘Scene in a London Flash-Panny’ Matsell Vocabulum 99: ‘I may bid as high as your pintle, and make you squint like a bag of nails,’ replied the intruder.at squint like a bag of nails, v.
1859 Matsell Vocabulum 11: bingavast Get you gone, ‘Bing we to New York;’ go we to New York.at bing a waste, v.
1859 Matsell Vocabulum 8: amerace. Very near; don’t go far; be within call.at within ambs-ace of under ambs-ace, n.
1859 Matsell Vocabulum n.p.: air and exercise To work in the stone quarry at Blackwell’s Island or at Sing Sing.at have air and exercise (v.) under air, n.
1859 ‘Scene in a London Flash-Panny’ Matsell Vocabulum 100: I would rather be a knight of Alsatia than a plucked pigeon.at Alsatia, n.
1859 Matsell Vocabulum 8: Amputate your Mahogany or Timber. Be off quick; away with you.at amputate one’s mahogany, v.
1859 Matsell Vocabulum 8: To amuse, to invent plausible stories and thereby rob or cheat unsuspecting persons.at amuse, v.
1859 Matsell Vocabulum 8: amusers fellows who carry snuff or pepper in their pockets, which they throw into a person’s eyes and then run away. The accomplice rushing up to the victim, pretending to assist, robs him while suffering with pain.at amuser (n.) under amuse, v.
1859 ‘Scene in a London Flash-Panny’ Matsell Vocabulum 100: Another fair damsel [...] emphatically declared, that if the tenant in possession did not immediately leave that, she would astonish her mazzard with the contents of a ‘nipper-kin of thunder and lightning.’.at thunder and lightning, n.
1859 Matsell Vocabulum 35: frog and toe The city of New-York. ‘Coves, let us frog and toe,’ coves, let us go to New-York.at frog and toe, n.
1859 Matsell Vocabulum 8: Anglers, small thieves who place a hook on the end of a stick, and therewith steal from store-windows, doors, etc. It also applies to fencemen; putters up, etc.at angler, n.
1859 Matsell Vocabulum 8: Anodyne. Death; to anodyne, to kill. ‘Ahr say, Bill, vy don’t yer hopen that jug and draw the cole?’ ‘Vy, my cove, aren’t you avare as how a bloke snoses hin it?’ ‘Vell, vot hof it, aren’t yer habel to put him to hanodyne?’.at anodyne, v.