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[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 6 Mar. 3/2: The Thief being in the Crowd, seeing the Pastime (and the Poor buyer undermost well loaded with Fist-Oyl) could not help calling out, That Mare stealer deserves to be heartily drubbed, drub him, drub him.
at fist oil (n.) under fist, n.
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 19 May 3/1: The livery stable keeper told a laughable anecdote to a gentleman present, of a young Dasher who came to his stable in the same way last year and left a horse and gig [etc.].
at dasher, n.
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 12 Dec. 3/3: STATE PRISON BIRD. 150 Dollars Reward.
at bird, n.1
[US] N.Y. Eve. Post 26 Dec. 2: There has for some time existed in this city, and in and about George and Charlotte Streets, a desperate association of lawless and unprincipled vagabonds, calling themselves ‘Highbinders’ .
at highbinder, n.
[US] Eve. Post (NY) 15 Sept. 2/4: Behold the ludicrous farce of making a stool pigeon of the ‘beastly’ representative of a petty Barbary power, for the purpose of decoying Congress [etc].
at stool-pigeon, n.1
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 22 Aug. 3/2: [Like] the wag who stole away from the company he was in, leaving a paper marked Dio, that is, ‘Damme, I am off.’.
at d.i.o., phr.
[US] Eve. Post (NY) 12 Feb. 2/4: The project of a British treaty [...] has been set up as a stool pigeon [...] and it has been seriously taken into consideration!
at stool-pigeon, n.1
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 18 Jan. n.p.: This, if I must speak plain, beats cock-fighting.
at that beats cockfighting under beat, v.
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 5 Aug. 2/2: Some unruly butcher’s boys intruded themselves into the ball-room, and raised such a dust, that it became necessary for the Police-officers to interfere, to preserve the peace.
at kick up (a) dust (v.) under dust, n.
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 19 June 2/1: [heading] Uncle Sam loo’d again. – Never was such luck! such cursed luck! This time the pool was a thumping one: no less, it is said, than three hundred thousand dollars, upon the table.
at loo, v.
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 17 Aug. 2/1: We do not understand the technical phrases he makes use of, such as nobbing each other in fine style — a good set-to — a clean hit — a facer — a floorer and unable to come-to in time, &c, &c. He had better make his complaint to the police office, whose business it is to attend to such affairs.
at facer, n.2
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 17 Aug. 2/1: we do not understand the technical phrases he makes use of, such as nobbing each other in fine style — a good set-to — a clean hit — a facer — a floorer and unable to come-to in time, &c, &c. He had better make his complaint to the police office, whose business it is to attend to such affairs.
at floorer, n.
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 17 Aug. 2/1: We do not understand the technical phrases he makes use of, such as nobbing each other in fine style — a good set-to — a clean hit — a facer — a floorer and unable to come-to in time, &c, &c. He had better make his complaint to the police office, whose business it is to attend to such affairs.
at nob, v.
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 12 Feb. 2/2–3: To such a pitch has this vice [playing policy] arrived that the place of drawing the lottery, the Union Hotel, is surrounded every morning by hundreds of servants and poor people, black and white, some of whom have horses ready and as soon as the first drawn number is called out, they jump upon the saddle and ride off at full speed to some distant office, and get the number insured, which they call pigeoning.
at pigeon, v.1
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 17 Aug. 2/1: The writer of a communication signed ‘Mendoza,’ giving an account of a boxing-match yesterday, on board of a ship, while on her way down the bay, must excuse us. Our readers take no interest in the science of boxing.
at science, n.
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 14 Aug. 2/3–4: This bank [...] notwithstanding that it pretends to set its face against taking horses at livery, now and then runs the risk of a shin-peeler, and in running three pair of burrs, catches an occasional lame duck.
at lame duck, n.1
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 7 June 2/3: The carelessness and insufferable conduct of our black night-gentry; commonly called Hobey-men.
at ho-boy, n.
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 21 Aug. 2/1: They shall be driven away by the ‘Blue devils’ to seek pleasure in some other quarter.
at blue devil, n.1
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 17 Oct. 2/6: The counterfeit money and all they can prove, (said he to the marshall on going into court) I don’t care for, if they don’t come over me with some yankee trick.
at come over, v.1
[US] Eve. Post (NY) 10 Dec. 2/2: But the Bucktails a Barber have put in his place, / To dry-shave us all.
at dry shave, v.1
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 14 Dec. 2/2: About 6 o’clock last evening, a savage looking fellow, attacked [...] two ladies [...] and after knocking them down, robbed [one] of her ‘indispensible’, containing $130.
at indispensible, n.
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 10 July 2/4: Neate was much distressed in the bellows line.
at bellows, n.
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 10 July 2/4: The coloured fogles, the blue bird’s-eye for Spring, and a yellowman for Neate, were then interwoven together on one of the P. C. stakes.
at bird’s eye, n.
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 18 Sept. 2/4: Peradventure they [naughty boys] have obtained a little money, in which case their holy-day amusement may consist in throwing the dice (by them familiarly called trundling the bones) or playing chuck farthing.
at roll the bones (v.) under bones, n.1
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 25 Sept. 2/2: An industrious mechanic [...] was robbed [...], but by whom, no one could tell. Suspicion, however, was lately fixed upon a brother chip.
at brother chip (n.) under brother, n.
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 11 Feb. 2/1: [headline, of a heavy drinker] A stout grog bruiser.
at bruiser, n.
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 11 Feb. 2/1: [headline] A stout grog bruiser.
at grog bruiser (n.) under grog, n.1
[US] N.-Y. Eve. Post 10 July 2/4: The Boy [...] planted a tremendous blow upon the Champion’s knob.
at knob, n.
[US] N.Y. Eve. Post 10 July 2/4: Neate was piping and openmouthed.
at pipe, v.1
[US] N.Y. Eve. Post 10 July 2/4: Spring gave him a right hand rattler upon the smeller.
at rattler, n.
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