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Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 17: R.: Have [they] any affinity with our men of law? M.: Never with these that be honest. Marry! With such as be ambidexters, and used to play in both the hands.at ambidexter, n.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 17: R.: Have [they] any affinity with our men of law? M.: Never with these that be honest. Marry! With such as be ambidexters, and used to play in both the hands. Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 29: This new-nurtured novice [...] is become so good a scholar, that he knoweth readily his flats and barris, and hath been snapper with the old cole at 2 or 3 deep strokes.at bar, n.1
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 37: Another oily shift, and for the subtyl invention and fitness of wit exceedeth far all the rest, is the barnard’s law: which, to be exactly practised, asketh four persons at least, each of them to play a long several part by himself.at barnard’s law (n.) under barnard, n.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 39: While the street and company gather to the fray [...] the barnard steals away with all the stuff.at barnard, n.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 27: Be sure to have in store of such as these be: a bale of hard sinke deusis, a flat sink deusis, a bale of bard vi easis, and flat vi easis, a bale of bard quarter tres and flat quarter tres. The advantage whereof is all on the one side, and consisteth in the forging.at barred, adj.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 30: He hath gotten a new chain, fyer new apparel, and some store of byte.at bit, n.1
(?) Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play (1850) 43: As when one man lost an hundred pound land at shooting, by occasion that some that shot with him on his side were booty fellows against him.at booty-fellow, n.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 4: A bale of brystelles.at bristles, n.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 33: Cutting at the neck is a great vantage, so is cutting by a bum card (finely) under and over.at bum card (n.) under bum, n.1
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 29: The knapp of the case, the goodman of the house calleth secretly unto him the third person.at knap of the case, the, n.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 18: These cheaters turnd cat in the pan, giving to divers vile, patching shifts, an honest and goodly title, calling it by the name of a law.at cat in (the) pan (n.) under cat, n.1
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 23: ‘Lo, here,’ saith the cheater to this young novice, ‘a well-favoured die, that seemeth good and square; yet is the forehead longer on the cater and tray than any other way, and therefore holdeth the name of a langret. Such be also called bard cater-tres, because, commonly, the longer end will, of his own sway, draw downwards, and turn up to the eye sice, sinke, deuis or ace.at cater-trey, n.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play in Judges (1926) 35: They call their worthy art by a new-found name calling themselves cheators, and the dice cheaters.at cheaters, n.1
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 18: Thus they give their own conveyance the name of cheating law.at cheating law, n.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 17: They call their worthy art by a new found name, calling themselves cheators, and the dice cheaters.at cheator, n.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 28: There be divers kind of cogging, but of all other the Spanish cogg bears the bell, and seldom raiseth any smoke.at cog, v.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 29: He have learned to verse, and lay in the reason well favouredly, to make the cousin stoupe all the coggs in his buy.at cog, n.1
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play in Judges (1926) 43: If ye lack contraries, to crossbite him withal, I shall lend you a pair of the same size that his cheats be.at contraries, n.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 26: Be they young, be they old, that falleth into our laps, and be ignorant of our arte, we call them all by the name of a couzin; as men that we make as much of as if they were of our kin.at cousin, n.1
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 30: If ye lack contraries, to crosbite him withal, I shall lend you a pair of the same size that his cheats be.at crossbite, v.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 28: Light graviers there be, demies, contraries, and of all sorts, forged clean against the apparent vantage, which have special and sundry uses.at demy, n.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play in Judges (1926) 44: A finer [trick] than this invented an Italian, and won much money with it by our doctors.at doctors, n.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 39: Then lead they the cousin to [...] the bear baiting at Paris garden, or some other place of throng, where, by five fingered figg boy [...] picked shall be his purse.at five-finger discount (n.) under five-finger(ed), adj.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 30: He hath greata acquaintance of men of the country [...] and, at the beginning, would every day fill the case with jolly fat cousins.at fat, adj.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 39: Then lead they the cousin to [...] the bear baiting at Paris garden, or some other place of throng, where, by five fingered figg boy, a grounded disciple of James Elis, picked shall be his purse.at fig-boy (n.) under fig, v.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 43: The chetor consulted with the land-lady in this case devised, that she should dally with the gentleman [...] till they might fig a link or two.at fig, v.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 40: They be but petty figgers and unlessoned lads that have such ready passage to the gallows.at figger, n.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 18: Thus they give their own conveyance the name of cheating law; so do they other terms, as sacking law, high law, figging law, and such like.at figging law, n.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 24: Therefore (saith the master) marke well your flat, and learn to know him surely when he runeth on the board.at flat, n.1
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 24: R.: But what shift have they to bring the flat in and out? M.: A jolly fine shift, that properly is called foysting, and it is nothing else but a sleight to carry easily within the hand as often as the foister lies.at foist, v.1
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