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Analecta, or, Materials for a History of Remarkable Providences related to Scotch Ministers and Christians choose

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[Scot] R. Wodrow Analecta I (1842) 22: Her papps seemed very bigg.
at paps, n.1
[Scot] R. Wodrow Analecta II (1842) 173: He mett with two gentlemen in very good habite, sparks, as they are called, [...] one of them say, ‘God damn you! hoe doe you doe this morning?’ The other sayes, ‘God damn me! I am yours.’.
at god-damn, v.
[Scot] R. Wodrow Analecta II (1842) 257: I hear that the Treasurer has been at much pains to bribe Steele off the lay that he is upon.
at lay, n.3
[Scot] R. Wodrow Analecta II (1842) 260: This tickled the King; and he sayes [...] ‘there is a Doctor for you!’.
at tickle, v.
[Scot] R. Wodrow Analecta II (1842) 165: I think he went about his trade to a fair; and there is a gang of tinklers he had been intimate with before, and almost a ringleader to them.
at tinkler, n.1
[Scot] R. Wodrow Analecta II (1842) 295: I hear the Jacobites are grouen very uppish of late.
at uppish, adj.
[Scot] R. Wodrow Analecta II (1842) 311: When afterwards the ship sailed, he did not at all loss [sic] his hopes, but used to say to such as twitted him [...] ‘Wait, they are not there as yet!’.
at twit, v.
[Scot] R. Wodrow Analecta II (1842) 333: Bradbury was hissed at the meeting [...] Not a feu Ministers enterteaned some gumm* (*Offence, umbrage).
at gum, n.1
[Scot] R. Wodrow Analecta II (1842) 357: Ther was a designe formed among some of the rigid and High-flying Cameronians, to assasinat the Indulged Ministers in the shire of Air, at their houses, in one night, by different partys [sic].
at high-flying, adj.
[Scot] R. Wodrow Analecta II (1842) 366: Thus gentlemen were first attacked [...] threatened with ruin, and forced to fly the country, and then forfaulted for sham-plots.
at sham-plot (n.) under sham, adj.
[Scot] R. Wodrow Analecta II (1842) 380: A woman who had been employed [...] to sweep the room and stairs, and put on fires, had blabbed out her being present in the room when the Earl of Leicester and the Princess were in bed together.
at blab, v.
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