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[UK] E. Gayton Festivous Notes II v 98: While Sancho, tho’ a stupid block, / Wish’d to be with her on the rock.
at block, n.1
[UK] E. Gayton Festivous Notes iii xi 66: [as cit. 1654.
at not so hot under hot, adj.
[UK] E. Gayton Festivous Notes I iii 18: It once happened to a Knight of the Wallet.
at knight of the..., n.
[UK] E. Gayton Festivous Notes III ii 116: He imagined this place contained a she-nursery.
at nursery, n.
[UK] E. Gayton Festivous Notes II v 100: Here the reader must begin to smell a rat.
at smell a rat (v.) under smell, v.
[UK] E. Gayton Festivous Notes I v 31: He was so bruised by the mule-driver when he lay on the ground, that he was spoiled for a star-gazer.
at star-gazer (n.) under star, n.1
[UK] E. Gayton Festivous Notes II iii 84: They pleased excellently well, for Pedro declares [...] that they were tip-top.
at tip-top, adj.
[UK] E. Gayton Festivous Notes I vii 51: For a man of his expectations to be depressed with such a trapes, was an intollerable circumstance.
at trapes, n.
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