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[UK] Shakespeare Comedy of Errors IV iii: That Adam that keeps the prison: he that [...] bid you forsake your liberty.
at adam, n.1
[UK] Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona IV ii: Now, my young guest, methinks you’re allycholly.
at allicholy, adj.
[UK] Shakespeare Comedy of Errors III i: It would make a man mad as a buck to be so bought and sold.
at mad as..., adj.
[UK] Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona II v: speed.: What an ass art thou! I understand thee not. launce.: What a block art thou, that thou canst not!
at block, n.1
[UK] Shakespeare Comedy of Errors II i: Too unruly deer, he breaks the pale, And feeds from home; poor I am but his stale.
at break the pale (v.) under break, v.1
[UK] Shakespeare Comedy of Errors IV iii: They appear to men as angels of light; light is an effect of fire and fire will burn; ergo, light wenches will burn. Come not near her.
at burn, v.
[UK] Shakespeare Comedy of Errors IV iv: Dissembling harlot! thou art false in all; And art confederate with a damned pack To make a loathsome abject scorn of me.
at damned, adj.
[UK] Shakespeare Comedy of Errors III ii: Do it by stealth; Muffle your false love with some show of blindness.
at do it, v.1
[UK] Shakespeare Comedy of Errors II i: Too unruly deer, he breaks the pale, And feeds from home; poor I am but his stale.
at feed from home (v.) under feed, v.
[UK] Shakespeare Comedy of Errors IV iii: They appear to men as angels of light; light is an effect of fire and fire will burn; ergo, light wenches will burn. Come not near her.
at fire, n.
[UK] Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona II iii: This left shoe is my mother [...] yes it is so; it hath the worst sole. This shoe, with the hole in it, is my mother, and this my father, a vengeance on’t!
at hole, n.1
[UK] Shakespeare Comedy of Errors II i: dro. e.: Why, mistress, sure my master is horn-mad. adr.: Horn-mad, thou villain! dro. e.: I mean not cuckold-mad.
at horn-mad, adj.
[UK] Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona III i: Fie on thee, jolthead! thou canst not read.
at jolterhead, n.
[UK] Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona I i: I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her, a laced mutton.
at laced mutton (n.) under laced, adj.
[UK] Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona II v: A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be.
at lubber, n.
[UK] Shakespeare Comedy of Errors III ii: O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note [...] Spread o’er the silver waves thy golden hairs, And as a bed I’ll take them and there lie.
at mermaid, n.
[UK] Shakespeare Comedy of Errors III ii: ant. s.: Where stood Belgia, the Netherlands? dro. s.: O, sir, I did not look so low.
at Netherlands, n.
[UK] Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona I i: Nod, ay? why, that’s noddy.
at noddy, n.
[UK] Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona IV iv: He had not been there [...] a pissing-while; but all the chamber smelt him.
at pissing, adj.
[UK] Shakespeare Comedy of Errors IV iv: Money by me! heart and good will you might; But surely, master, not a rag of money.
at rag, n.1
[UK] Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona II iv: val.: Sweet lady, entertain him To be my fellow-servant to your ladyship. sil.: Too low a mistress for so high a servant.
at servant, n.
[UK] Shakespeare Comedy of Errors IV ii: A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that countermands The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands.
at shoulder-clapper (n.) under shoulder, n.
[UK] Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona II iii: pant.: Why doest thou stop me mouth? launce.: For fear thou shouldst lose thy tongue. pant.: Where should I lose my tongue? launce: In thy tale. pant.: In thy tail!
at tail, n.
[UK] Shakespeare Henry VI Pt 2 I iii: By these ten bones, my lords, he did speak to me in the garret one night.
at ten bones, n.
[UK] Shakespeare Henry VI Pt 2 IV x: Many a time, but for a sallet, my brain-pan had been cleft with a brown-bill.
at brainpan (n.) under brain, n.1
[UK] Shakespeare Titus Andronicus IV iii: The Bull, being gall’d, gave Aries such a knock / That down fell both the Ram’s horns in the court.
at bull, n.1
[UK] Shakespeare Henry VI Pt 2 I iii: Contemptuous base-born callot as she is.
at callet, n.
[UK] Shakespeare Henry VI Pt 1 III ii: Away, captains!
at captain, n.
[UK] Shakespeare Titus Andronicus V i: As sure a card as ever won the set.
at sure card (n.) under card, n.2
[UK] Shakespeare Henry VI Pt 2 IV vii: When shall we go to Cheapside, and take up commodities upon our bills?
at commodity, n.
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