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[UK] J. Rastell Four Elements in Dodsley I (1874) 41: Why, man, what aileth thee so to blow?
at blow, v.1
[UK] T. Preston Cambyses in Dodsley Old Plays (1875) IV 235: But cousin, because to that office ye are not like come, / Frequent your exercises, a horne on your thumbe, / A quick eye, a sharp knife [F&H].
at horn-thumb (n.) under horn, n.2
[UK] A. Munday Death of Huntington in Dodsley Old Plays VIII V i: Good bawd, good mother B.
at mother, n.
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap in Dodsley Old Plays XIII Act I: Let ballad-mongers crown him with their scorns: Who buys the buck’s-head well deserves the horns.
at buckface (n.) under buck, n.1
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap in Dodsley Old Plays XIII Act I: Confidence makes not so many cuckolds in England, but craft picks open more padlocks in Italy.
at Italian padlock (n.) under Italian, adj.
[UK] R. Davenport City-Night-Cap in Dodsley Old Plays XIII Act I: We should lay our heads, And take our horns up out of women’s laps.
at lap, n.1
[UK] Brome Jovial Crew in Dodsley Old Plays 10 370: And talk as wild and wantonly / As Tom, or Tib, or Jack, or Jill, / While they at the bowsing ken do swill.
at bowsing-ken, n.
[UK] London Chaunticleers in Dodsley Old Plays XII I ii : [She] used to say that I was born to be a gardener’s wife, as soon as ever I was taken out of her parsley-bed.
at parsley bed, n.
[UK] Cary Marriage Night in Dodsley Old Plays XV II i: But is she man’s meat? I have a tender appetite, and can scarcely digest One in her teens.
at meat, n.
[UK] Cary Marriage Night in Dodsley Old Plays XV II i: How the gander Ruffles and prunes himself, as if he would Tread the goose by him.
at tread, v.
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