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(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel III 14: All that should assist me are as drunk as fiddlers.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel III 14: All that should assist me are as drunk as fiddlers. (con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 30: ‘Now, out upon your tender conscience [...] and the fico for such outcasts of Parnassus!’.at fig, a, n.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 131: ‘Bing avast, bing avast!’ replied his companion; ‘yon other is rattling Reginald Lowestoffe.’.at bing a waste, v.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 297: Go to our palace, and fetch Lord Green’s morning draught. Let us see – what shall it be, my lord? – a humming double pot of ale [etc.].at humming ale, n.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel I 58: With her own hands, also, [she] drew a jug of stout and nappy ale.at nappy (ale), n.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 116: The Alsatians have – I beg you to understand me – the power of protecting or distressing our friends, male or female, who may be obliged to seek sanctuary within their bounds. [Ibid.] 127: You shall sink a nobleman in the Temple Gardens, and rise an Alsatian at Whitefriars.at Alsatian (n.) under Alsatia, n.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel I 115: That was his father [...] You old dotard Dot-and-carry-one that you are.at dot and carry one, n.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 280: We had a carouse to your honour [...] we were as loving as inkle-weavers.at ...two inkle-weavers under thick as..., adj.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel I 59: He was an atomy when he came up from the North, and I am sure he died [...] at twenty stone weight.at atomy, n.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel I 21: Give me the barnacles, my good youth, and who can say what nose they may bestride in two years hence?at barnacles, n.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 131: ‘Tour out,’ said the one ruffian to the other; ‘tour the bien mort twiring at the gentry cove!’.at bene mort (n.) under bene, adj.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 77: You will gain nought by speaking big with me. [Ibid.] III 57: I wish to know how you, who talk so big – I mean no offence, master, but you do talk big – would help yourself.at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 145: By spigot and barrel, / By bilboe and buff; / Thou art sworn to the quarrel / Of the blades of the huff.at bilbo, n.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 236: Yes, you jade, you shall be carted for bawd and conjurer, double-dyed in grain, and bing off to Bridewell.at bing, v.1
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 114: Fifty as fair yellow canary-birds as e’er chirped in the bottom of a green silk purse.at canary-bird, n.2
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 275: A morning draught of wholesome single ale, which he brought in a large leathern tankard, or black-jack.at black jack, n.1
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel III 17: If you would give the blood-hounds the slip, why, you may.at bloodhound (n.) under blood, n.1
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 147: A certain Blowselinda, or Bonstrops, who had, it seems, a room to hire.at blouzelinda, n.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel I 281: I fancy you would love to move to Court with him, followed by a round score of old blue-bottles, with white heads and red noses, with bucklers and broadswords.at bluebottle, n.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel I 110: I hope to see him ride upon his moyle, with a foot-cloth, and have his two blue-coats after him.at bluecoat, n.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 109: What! your lordship is for a frolic into Alsatia? [...] I promise you there are bona-robas to be found there – good wine too, ay, and good fellows to drink it with.at bona roba, n.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel I 22: At the next play of yours I will bring down a set of roaring boys that shall make all the critics [...] civil. [Ibid.] II 130: Here come two of the male inhabitants, smoking like moving volcanoes! These are roaring blades.at roaring boy, n.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel I 305: ‘A hard word it is,’ said Richie, ‘as my brain-pan kens [...]’ ‘Were I your master, sirrah [...] I would make your brain-pan, as you call it, boil over, were you to speak a word in my presence before you were spoken to.’.at brainpan (n.) under brain, n.1
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 283: Men talk of high and low dice, Fulhams, and bristles, topping, knapping, slurring, stabbing, and a hundred ways of rooking besides.at bristles, n.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel III 240: ‘Buckle them, my Lord Bishop, as fast as you can’ [...] The Bishop accordingly opened his book and commenced the marriage ceremony.at buckle, v.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 134: A hedge-parson, or buckle-beggar, as that order of priesthood has been irreverently termed.at buckle-beggar (n.) under buckle, v.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 131: An extravagantly long rapier and poinard [...] marked the true Alsatian bully.at bully, n.1
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel I 311: You will meet bullies and sharpers, who will strive either to cheat or to swagger you out of your money.at bully, n.1
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 236: Yes, you jade, you shall be carted for bawd and conjure.at cart, v.
(con. early 17C) Fortunes of Nigel II 282: Marry, thou hast me on the hip there, thou old miserly cony-catcher!at cony-catcher, n.1
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