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[UK] J. Taylor Drinke and Welcome 10: Ale is rightly called Nappy, for it will nap upon a mans threed bare eyes when he is sleepy.
at nappy (ale), n.
[UK] J. Taylor Drinke and Welcome 11: Beere, by a Mixture of Wine [...] hath lost both Name and Nature, and is called Balderdash.
at balderdash, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Drinke and Welcome 9: I shall abruptly conclude [...] with the fagge-end of an old man’s old will.
at fag end, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Drinke and Welcome 5: For muddy, foggy, fulsome, puddle, stinking, / For all of these, Ale is the onely drinking.
at foggy, adj.
[UK] J. Taylor Drinke and Welcome 10: It [ale] is called Merry-go-downe, for it slides down merrily.
at merry-go-down (n.) under merry, adj.
[UK] J. Taylor Drinke and Welcome 23: There are two Springs, which women (when they mump) / Or lumpish lowring from their eyes can pumpe.
at mump, v.
[UK] J. Taylor Drinke and Welcome 3: It seeme a Nick’t name to the world.
at Nick, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Drinke and Welcome 21: But hang base pispot cheating Mountebankes.
at pisspot, adj.
[UK] J. Taylor Drinke and Welcome 13: I have no reason to love Sack, for it made me twice a Rat in Woodstreet Counter-trap.
at rat, n.1
[UK] J. Taylor Drinke and Welcome 12: [Beere] is contemptuously called Rotgut.
at rotgut, n.
[UK] J. Taylor Drinke and Welcome 4: This drinke is of a most hot nature, as being compos’d of Spices, and if it once scale the sconce [...] it doth much to accellerate nature.
at sconce, n.1
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