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New York Gazette and General Advertiser choose

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[US] N.Y. Gazette Revived 16 Jan. 1/1: That the fly Ones should not suspect you for a Courtier, you have been likewise very arch in giving us to understand, that you had been heretofore pleased to encourage and support the Party.
at fly, adj.
[US] N.Y. Gazette Revived 15 Jan. 3/1: Old Wisewood smoak’d the Matter as it was.
at smoke, v.1
[US] N.Y. Gazette Revived 27 Nov. 2/5: Roach told Kennedy he had mill’d a Pocket-Book, and would have him go along to see what was in it.
at mill, v.1
[US] N.Y. Gazette Revived 18 Dec. 2/2: We hear [...] that an odd Sect of People have lately appeared [...], who go under the Denomination of Regulators [...] who dress themselves in Women’s Cloaths, and painting their Faces, go in the Evening to the Houses of such as are reported to have beat their Wives; where one of them [...] seizes the Delinquent, while the rest [...] strip him, turn up his Posteriors, and flog him with Rods most severely.
at regulator, n.
[US] N.Y. Gazette and General Advertiser 28 July 3/1: On Monday morning last, some of the Seamen belonging to the Essex frigate, paraded the streets, a little in for’t, singing the new song about the Good Ship constitution.
at in for (it), phr.
[US] N.Y. Gazette and General Advertiser 2 Dec. 2/1–2: ‘Turn him out,’ says one. ‘Let him alone,’ says another. ‘Stop up his gob box.’ ‘It takes a man to do that.’ ‘Does it, by G—? then I’m that man.’.
at gob-box (n.) under gob, n.1
[US] N.Y. Gazette and General Advertiser 2 Dec. 2/1–2: ‘You lie,’ said the opponent, bestowing at the same time a dab upon the ivory of his antagonist, ‘and if you get up in a week, write me down an ass.’.
at ivory, n.
[US] N.Y. Gazette and General Advertiser 2 Dec. 2/1–2: Then commenced the general row, during which peepers were closed, and vast quantities of claret uncorked.
at row, n.1
[US] N.Y. Gazette and General Advertiser 10 Feb. 2/1: One of the party [...] cried ‘Hawks,’ and the pigeons and pluckers dispersed.
at hawk, n.1
[US] N.Y. Gazette and General Advertiser 10 Feb. 2/1: One of the party [...] cried ‘Hawks,’ and the pigeons and pluckers dispersed.
at plucker, n.
[US] N.Y. Gazette and General Advertiser 6 Aug. 2/4: [Mr. Gage is thought to have faked a robbery of himself; he,] in fact, appears to be completely Goodriched, and must be more authentically robbed and murdered if he would be a martyr of any standing.
at Goodrich game, n.
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