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[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt I canto 1 line 313–4: They were lin’d with many a piece / Of ammunition-bread and cheese.
at ammunition, n.
[UK] Butler Hudibras II 50: For as tailors preserve their cabbage, / So squires take care of bag and baggage.
at cabbage, n.1
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt I canto 2 line 832: I here engage myself to loose ye, / And free your heels from Caperdewsie.
at caperdewsie, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt I canto 3 line 1367: Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast out-run the constable at last; For thou art fallen as a new Dispute, as senseless as untrue, But to the former opposite, And contrary as black to white.
at outrun the constable, v.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt I canto 1 line 546: He understood [...] What Member ’tis of whom they talk when they cry Rope, and Walk Knave, walk.
at cry (a) rope (v.) under cry, v.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt I canto 3 line 1091: Hard matter for a man to do / That has but any guts in’s brains.
at have guts in one’s brains (v.) under gut, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt I canto 1 line 253: Like Sampson’s Heart-breakers, it grew / In time to make a Nation rue.
at heartbreaker, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt I canto 3 line 910: Crowdero, whom in Irons bound, / Thou basely threw’st into Lob’s pound / Where still he lies.
at lob’s pound, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt I canto 2 line 707–8: Where thou might’st stickle without hazard / Of outrage to thy hide and mazzard.
at mazard, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt I canto 3 line 821: I took thee napping unprepared.
at catch someone napping (v.) under napping, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt I canto 1 line 598: Detect who ’twas that nimm’d a Cloke.
at nim, v.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt I canto 1 line 599: Make Mercury confesse and peach / Those thieves which he himself did teach.
at peach, v.
[UK] Butler Hudibras I iii 886: Although thou hast deserv’d, / Base Slubberdegullion, to be serv’d / As thou did’st vow to deal with me.
at slabberdegullion, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt I canto 2 line 926: Getting up on stump and huckle, / He with the foe began to buckle.
at stumps, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt I canto 1 line 23: Great on the bench, great in the saddle, / He could as well bind o’er as swaddle.
at swaddle, v.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt II canto 3 line 376: Spells, / Which over ev’ry month’s blank-page. / I’ th’ Almanack strange bilks presage.
at bilk, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt II canto 3 line 1010: He stole your cloak and pick’d your pocket, Chows’d and Caldes’d you like a blockhead.
at caldese, v.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt II canto 1 line 81: Democritus ne’er laugh’d so loud, To see Bawds carted through the crowd.
at cart, v.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt II canto 1 line 355: Love’s power [...] Seiz’d on his Club, and made it dwindle T’a feeble Distaff.
at club, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt II canto 3 line 950: No sooner does he peep into the world but he has done his doe.
at do, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt II canto 3 line 208: He had been long t’wards mathematicks, [...] Magick, horoscopy, astrology, / And was old dog at physiology.
at old dog, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt II canto 1 lines 641–2: As one cut out to pass your tricks on, / With Fulham’s of poetic fiction.
at fulhams, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt II canto 3 line 1034: To be expos’d, i’ th’ end, to suffer/ By such a braggadocio huffer.
at huffer, n.1
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt II canto 3 line 209: Booker’s, Lilly’s, Sarah Jimmers / And Blank-Schemes to dis-cover Nimmers.
at nim, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt II canto 1 line 560: Now in close hugger-mugger pent, [...] With that one, and that other pigsney.
at pigsnyes, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt II canto 1 line 247–8: Departs not meanly proud, and boasting / Of his magnificent rib-roasting.
at rib roast, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt III canto 2 line 278: Raptures of Platonick Lashing, And chast Contemplative bardashing.
at bardash, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt III canto 1line 1403: Thou art some paltry, blackguard sprite, Condemn’d to drudg’ry in the night.
at blackguard, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt III canto 2 line 1147–8: Out-gifted, out-impuls’d, out-done, / And out-reveal’d at carryings-on.
at carrying-on, n.
[UK] S. Butler Hudibras Pt III canto 3 line 531: Sillier than a sottish chowse, / Who, when thief has robb’d his house, / Applies himself to cunning men, / To help him to his goods agen.
at chouse, n.
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