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[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 66: This lustful Ape, thinks he has got a prey.
at ape, n.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 30: He’l cock the broom-mans beaver.
at beaver, n.1
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 5: Alas, you know that I am big with childe.
at big, adj.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search letter by Nabbs: This Subject handled by a Blade oth’ times, That knows to court his lasse in bawdy rimes.
at blade, n.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 42: Two roaring blades being on a time in drink.
at roaring boy, n.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 53: Come my little Pander [...] Go on my bully, as thou hast begun; Ile pay thee bravely, when thy worke is done.
at bully, n.1
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 127: Now when this whore does want a man of worth To keepe her brave, she’ll send her Pander forth (Pray call him Captaine).
at captain, n.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 255: This strumpet had been chaffring with her ware; If she could trade, with whom she did not care.
at charver, v.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 43: Pish, hold your clack.
at hold one’s clack (v.) under clack, n.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 30: How happy should he be, had he but coyne!
at coin, n.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search letter by Bradwell: I never in my life was in a Stews: Nor ever visited a house of sinne, Unlesse to cure the grinkhams they were in.
at crinkum, n.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 18: Guilt followes on, and doggs him tow’rd his end.
at dog, v.1
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 57: Tat foine Duck as hoydes her vace.
at duck, n.1
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 179: He at her garden house do’s find her out.
at garden house, n.1
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 257: Strive T’avoid such gulfes, which swallow men alive.
at gulf, n.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 32: Thou hast undone me! [...] Thou hedge-bird trull!
at hedge-bird (n.) under hedge, adj.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 28: To Bridewell she is brought, (She calls it Hell) for there she must be taught To turne the mill, or beat hemp.
at hell, n.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 54: Persist, sweet Honey-chops!
at honey, n.1
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 52: For I do use her, as a hooke and line To catch Iack-simple.
at jack, n.2
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 23: Having man’d a whore, He gets a fee.
at man, v.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 56: The Canibal when he saw a stranger saw, He strangely entertain’d him in his maw.
at maw, n.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search letter by Collett: A knot of Night-fowles. [Ibid.] 39: There are such nests of night-birds in all places.
at nightbird (n.) under night, n.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 76: We are undone: for P: hath seiz’d upon us With violence, to take our teeth quite from us.
at p, n.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search letter by Chamberlain: There’s not a drunkard, filthy quean, or scum, That’s left unpunisht.
at quean, n.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search letter by Champernowne n.p.: Those that are rotten-ripe, Drop down before thee.
at rotten, adj.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 58: The Teige dives downe into his slops.
at slops, n.1
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search letter by Brewer: Some punke, Some bawd half-stew’d, some snuffing pander drunk.
at stewed, adj.1
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 57: She askt him strait, What wench he’d please to have; one young or old.
at straight, adv.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 57: She thus poore Teige did wooe.
at Taig, n.
[UK] H. Mill Nights Search I 87: Now if her taile were seene, she’d paint that too.
at tail, n.
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