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Sir Launcelot Greaves II 7: Adds-buntlines! — I did’n’t go to give you the lie, brother.at ads, n.
Sir Launcelot Greaves II 7: Adds-buntlines! — I did’n’t go to give you the lie, brother. Sir Launcelot Greaves II 9: An we once fall a-jawing, d’ye see, I can heave out as much bilge-water as another.at bilgewater, n.
Sir Launcelot Greaves II 181: My husband, though he is become a blackguard jail-bird, must be allowed to be a handsome fellow still.at blackguard, n.
Sir Launcelot Greaves II 209: Heave your eye into the binnacle, and box your compass.at box one’s/the compass (v.) under box, v.2
Sir Launcelot Greaves II 89: He ordered the waiter [...] to bear a hand, ship his oars, mind his helm, and bring alongside a short allowance of brandy or grog, that he might cant a slug into his bread-room.at bread room (n.) under bread, n.1
Sir Launcelot Greaves II 89: He ordered the waiter [...] to bear a hand, ship his oars, mind his helm, and bring alongside a short allowance of brandy or grog, that he might cant a slug into his bread-room.at cant, v.2
Sir Launcelot Greaves I 41: Crowe [...] damned him for a chicken-hearted lubber.at chicken-hearted, adj.
Sir Launcelot Greaves I 165: Your honour’s face is made of a fiddle; every one that looks on you loves you.at face made of a fiddle under face, n.
Sir Launcelot Greaves II 181: My husband, though he is become a blackguard jail-bird, must be allowed to be a handsome fellow still.at gaolbird, n.
Sir Launcelot Greaves I 106: I’ve had an ugly dream. I thought, for all the world, they were carrying me to Newgate; and that there was Jack Ketch coom to vetch me.at Jack Ketch, n.
Sir Launcelot Greaves II 9: An once we fall a-jawing, d’ye see, I can heave out as much bilge-water as another.at jaw, v.1
Sir Launcelot Greaves II 9: I can as well bedaub your mistress Aurelia, whom I value no more than old junk, pork slush, or stinking stock-fish.at junk, n.1
Sir Launcelot Greaves I 248: ‘True!’ (exclaimed the other limb of the law) ‘and, for contempt of the law, attachment may be had against justices of peace in Banco Regis.’.at limb of the law (n.) under limb, n.
Sir Launcelot Greaves II 203: I’d cheat my own vather, as the saying is—a must be a good hand at trapping, that catches the starns a napping.at catch someone napping (v.) under napping, n.
Sir Launcelot Greaves II 80: Good Iack! a’has been mortally obstropolous, and out of his senses all this blessed day.at obstropolous, adj.
Sir Launcelot Greaves II 198: He must have sold himself to old scratch; and being a servant of the devil, how could he be a good subject to her majesty.at old Scratch (n.) under old, adj.
Sir Launcelot Greaves I 148: Pox rot thee, Tom Clarke, for a wicked laayer!at pox take —! (excl.) under pox, n.1
Sir Launcelot Greaves I 128: He knew he should be rib-roasted every day, and murdered at last.at rib roast, v.
Sir Launcelot Greaves I 166: I believe as how ’t is no horse, but a devil incarnate; and yet I’ve been worse mounted, that I have – I’d like to have rid a horse that was foaled of an acorn.at ride the horse foaled by an acorn (v.) under ride, v.
Sir Launcelot Greaves II 89: He ordered the waiter [...] to bear a hand, ship his oars, mind his helm, and bring alongside a short allowance of brandy or grog, that he might cant a slug into his bread-room.at slug, n.1
Sir Launcelot Greaves II 6: If so be it as you spank it away at that rate, adad, I can’t continue in tow.at spank, v.2
Sir Launcelot Greaves I 131: Aha! dost thou tip me the traveller, my boy?at tip the traveller (v.) under traveller, n.
Sir Launcelot Greaves II 206: You are not the first, so neither will you be the last to swing on Tyburn-tree.at Tyburn tree (n.) under Tyburn, n.
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