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[US] Matsell Vocabulum 74: rocked in a stone cradle Born in a prison.
at rocked in a stone kitchen, phr.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum.
at break a leg, v.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum.
at jack-a-dandy, n.
[US] ‘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.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum 11: bingavast Get you gone, ‘Bing we to New York;’ go we to New York.
at bing a waste, v.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum 1: abraham cove A naked or poor man; a beggar in rags.
at abraham-man, n.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum.
at academy, n.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum 8: amerace. Very near; don’t go far; be within call.
at within ambs-ace of under ambs-ace, n.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum.
at active citizens, n.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum.
at adam, n.1
[US] Matsell Vocabulum.
at addle-cove, n.
[US] 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.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum.
at albonized, adj.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum 30: eye Nonsense; humbug.
at all my eye, phr.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum.
at string (along), v.
[US] ‘Scene in a London Flash-Panny’ Matsell Vocabulum 100: I would rather be a knight of Alsatia than a plucked pigeon.
at Alsatia, n.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum 8: altemal All in a heap, without items; the sum total.
at altamel, n.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum.
at in one’s altitudes (adj.) under altitudes, n.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum.
at ambidexter, n.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum 8: Amputate your Mahogany or Timber. Be off quick; away with you.
at amputate one’s mahogany, v.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum 8: To amuse, to invent plausible stories and thereby rob or cheat unsuspecting persons.
at amuse, v.
[US] 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.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum.
at cow-and-kisses, n.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum.
at out and out, n.
[US] ‘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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum.
at anoint (with birchen salve), v.
[US] Matsell Vocabulum.
at aqua, n.
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