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The Secret History of Clubs choose

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[UK] N. Ward Secret Hist. of Clubs 57: Their Club might [...] frighten them from attempting to put their Parchment Dabs upon the Shoulders of the Society.
at parchment dab, n.
[UK] N. Ward Secret Hist. of Clubs 165: A Lawyer’s Clark, who had venturd to make a Loose from the Finger Drudgery of Pen Ink and Paper, would usher in the Buxom Daughter.
at make a loose (v.) under loose, n.
[UK] N. Ward Secret Hist. of Clubs 171: The chief Motives that induc’d such a swarm of two Leg’d Caterpillars to give their constant Attendance at this School of Venus, was, . . . to Ogle, Prattle, Wheedle, give convincing Testimonies, by their airy Agility, of their being charming Bedfellows; the Women to draw in Cullies; the Men to furnish themselves with new obliging Mistresses [...].
at school of Venus, n.
[UK] N. Ward Secret Hist. of Clubs 303: How to file a Drunken Cully; Sweeten an Old Letcher; Whedle a constant Customer [...] and how to pass at once a Sham-Saint and a Maidenhead upon a loose Quaker.
at pass a sham saint (v.) under pass, v.
[UK] N. Ward Secret Hist. of Clubs 184: When Nature is so opprest that they [i.e. ‘the greatest Guzzlers’] want Leakage, they may turn their Conduit Pipes into the Tap-Holes of the Casks they sit upon, without giving themselves the Trouble of a Remove to the Chamber-Pot.
at pipe, n.1
[UK] N. Ward Secret Hist. of Clubs 164: [A bully] with a lac’d Hat, Beaux like, under his Left Arm, and in his Right Hand a Grays-Inn Semptress tiffl’d up with taudry Laces, old Ribbonds, and black Bugles, as if she was Dress’d to act a Slattern’s Part in some old slovenly Comedy.
at sempstress, n.
[UK] N. Ward Secret Hist. of Clubs 285: They had cushion’d up the Belly of one of their Sodomitical Brethren, or rather Sisters, as they commonly call’d themselves, disguising him in a Womans Night-Gown.
at sister, n.
[UK] N. Ward Secret Hist. of Clubs 364: Nor indeed could [...] a Man of Honour marry a celebrated Beauty, or a great Fortune, but they would draw him in with a charming Epithalamium to pay them Socket-Money.
at socket-money (n.) under socket, n.
[UK] N. Ward Secret Hist. of Clubs 171: Damn’d filing Whores, still Sows, and Fireships.
at still sow, n.
[UK] N. Ward ‘Panegyrick upon my Lady Fizzleton’s Lap-Dog’ Secret Hist. of Clubs 250: [The dog] whose Tongue my Lady’s Wants supplies, [...] Pleases much better than the Spanish Art.
at Spanish trick (n.) under Spanish, adj.
[UK] N. Ward Secret Hist. of Clubs 378: [The] Sort of Ladies who prefer Mars’s Truncheon to Apollo’s Harp.
at truncheon, n.
[UK] N. Ward Secret Hist. of Clubs 303: How to file a Drunken Cully; Sweeten an Old Letcher; Whedle a constant Customer [...] and how to pass at once a Sham-Saint and a Maidenhead upon a loose Quaker.
at wheadle, v.
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