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The Confederacy choose

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[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy V i: If your Master has the Estate he talks of, why not do’t above-board?
at above board, adv.
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy Act V: clar.: Who makes thee cry out thus, poor Brass? brass: Why, your husband, madam; he’s in his altitudes here.
at in one’s altitudes (adj.) under altitudes, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy I i: He sets his Arms a kimbo, cocks his saucy Hat in my Face, turns about upon his ungracious Heel, as much as to say Kiss --------.
at kiss my arse!, excl.
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy II i: He’d make me sick as a dog.
at …a dog (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy III ii: You must know I went round the Bush, and round the Bush, before I came to the matter.
at beat about the bush (v.) under beat, v.
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy II i: Speak Bird, do: Don’t be modest.
at bird, n.1
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy II ii: ’Tis my Rogue of a Son has laid his Bird-lime Fingers on’t.
at birdlime, adj.
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy V i: That Birdlime there – stole it.
at birdlime, n.1
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy I i: I must fix my Affairs quickly, or Madame Fortune will be playing some of her Bitch Tricks with me.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy II ii: I wish my old hobbling Mother han’t been blabbing something here she shou’d not do.
at blab, v.
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy I i: dick: Who is this good Woman, Flippanta? flip: A Gin of all Trades; an old daggling Cheat that hobbles from House to House to Bubble Ladies of their Mony.
at bubble, v.1
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy II ii: But hast thou said a little something to her, Chicken, for an expiring Lover ha?
at chicken, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy II i: Cods-fish, strike him, Madam, and let my Lady go your halves. There’s no Sin in plundering a Husband.
at cod, n.1
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy I i: dick: Who is this good Woman, Flippanta? flip.: A Gin of all Trades; an old daggling Cheat that hobbles from House to House to Bubble Ladies of their Mony.
at daggle-tailed, adj.
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy i: An old dangling chet, that hobbles about from house to house to bubble the ladies of their money [F&H].
at dangle, v.
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy II i: Cods-fish, strike him, Madam, and let my Lady go your halves. There’s no Sin in plundering a Husband.
at halvers, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy II i: mon.: If she did but know what part I take in her Sufferings. flip.: Mighty obscure. mon.: Well, I’ll say no more; but —flip.: All Hebrew.
at Hebrew, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy I i: The Rogue had a Kettle-drum to his Father, who was hang’d for robbing a Church].
at kettledrum, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy I i: A Woman must indeed be of a mechanick Mold, who is either troubled or pleas’d with any thing her Husband can do to her.
at mechanic, adj.
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy I i: He’s always shaking his Heels with the Ladies, and his Elbows with the Lords.
at shake a leg (v.) under shake, v.
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy II ii: aram.: The Stars have done this. clar.: The pretty little Twinklers.
at twinklers, n.
[UK] Vanbrugh Confederacy V ii: So, thats a wipe for me now, because I did not give her a New-Years-Gift.
at wipe, n.
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