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[UK] Webster Westward Hoe II i: Have you a new pen for me, master? for, by my truly, my old one is stark naugh.
at by my truly! (excl.) under truly, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe V i: Motherly woman hees my husband and no Batchelers buttons are at his doublett.
at bachelor’s buttons (n.) under bachelor, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe IV i: I feare our oares haue giuen vs the bag.
at give someone the bag (v.) under bag, n.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe II ii: Will womens tongues (like Bakers legs) neuer go straight?
at baker-kneed, adj.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe V i: We tickle againe to remember how wee sent you a Bat-fowling.
at bat-fowling, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe V iii: He bleedes like a Pig, for his crowne’s crackt.
at bleed like a (stuck) pig (v.) under bleed, v.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe V i: I know what one of em buz’d in mine eare.
at buzz, v.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe V i: I wud not haue em cast vp their accounts here, for more than they meane to be drunke this tweluemonth.
at cast up one’s accounts (v.) under cast, v.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe V i: Plague a their Cats guts, and their scraping.
at catgut, n.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe II i: Do not thy cheekes burne sweete chuckaby, for wee are talking of thee.
at chuckaby, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe II i: All wiues loue clipping.
at clip, v.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe V i: Men are so iealous, or rather enuious of one anothers happinesse ... that he who shall misse his hen, if hee be a right Cocke indeede, will watch the other from treading.
at cock, n.3
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe II i: Were I the proprest, sweetest, plumpest, Cherry-cheekt, Corrall-lipt woman in a kingdome, I would not daunce after one mans pipe.
at dance, v.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe II ii: To morrow; sheele not sleepe then but tumble [...] If you doot to night, it would better please her then to morrow.
at do it, v.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe V i: My master, and Sir Gozlin are guzling; they are dabling together fathom deepe.
at guzzle, v.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe V i: He who shall misse his hen, if hee be a right Cocke indeede, will watch the other from treading.
at hen, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe I i: I feare twill be hot staying for you in London then.
at hot, adj.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe V i: Shee has tricks to keepe a vaulting house vnder the Lawes nose.
at vaulting house, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe IV i: There be a thousand bragging Jackes in London.
at jack, n.2
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe I ii: Yet most of your Citizens wiues loue iolting?
at jolt, v.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe V i: Puh, good maister Lynstocke, Ile not stand by whilst you giue Fire at your Key-holes.
at keyhole, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe I i: His cloak shrouding his face, as if he were a Neopolitan that had lost his beard in April.
at Neapolitan, adj.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe II ii: The Lob has his Lasse [...] the Seruing-man his Punke, the student his Nun in white Fryers.
at nun, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe V iii: Go, sail with the rest of your bawdy-traffickers to the place of sixpenny sinfulness [F&H].
at place of sixpenny sinfulness, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe II i: Were I the proprest, sweetest, plumpest, Cherry-cheekt, Corrall-lipt woman in a kingdome, I would not daunce after one mans pipe.
at pipe, n.1
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe V i: This Monopoly is an arrant knaue [...] sufferd to ride vp and downe with other mens wiues.
at ride, v.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe II.ii: That French gowne, Scotch fals, Scotch bum, and Italian head-tire you sent her.
at Scotch bum (n.) under Scotch, adj.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe V i: What a prophane varlet is this shoulder clapper, to lye thus vpon my wife & her ringes.
at shoulder-clapper (n.) under shoulder, n.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe III i: All the women in Italy would shew their husbands a Million of light paire of heeles, and flie ouer into England.
at show (someone) a (clean) pair of heels (v.) under show, v.
[UK] Dekker & Webster Westward Hoe V i: Saile with the rest of your baudie-traffikers to the place of sixe-penny Sinfulnesse the subvrbes.
at sixpenny suburb-sinnet (n.) under sixpenny, adj.
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