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N.Y. Herald 28 Mar. 1/4: A tall, wall sided, sandy haired Yankee, as drunk as ‘Davie’s sow’.at drunk as David’s sow, adj.
N.Y. Herald 28 Mar. 1/4: A tall, wall sided, sandy haired Yankee, as drunk as ‘Davie’s sow’. N.Y. Herald 16 June 1/2: Choice way of creating an appetite, and getting a cheap dinner. — Go to Sandy Welsh’s between the hours of 2 and 4, glance over the bill of fare, snuff up the odoriferous scent from the luxuries and delicacies of his kitchen, take three turns round, and then dart into Sweeney’s slap bang shop.at slap-bang(-shop), n.
N.Y. Herald 12 Feb. 1/2: [headline] Arraigned for Trial. Oh! Cricker!at crikey!, excl.
N.Y. Herald 24 Feb. 1/4: When the sentence was passed, Hibbard got up and exclaimed — ‘that’s right, old daddy’ — and went off gaily.at daddy, n.
N.Y. Herald 11 Mar. 4/1: Mr. Park contended that Mr Fuller was only playing another ‘Goodrich game,’ by pretending to have been robbed to avoid paying his board bill for men and horses, amounting to between $70 and $80.at Goodrich game, n.
N.Y. Herald 15 Aug. 2/4: [William Robinson, sentenced to ten years]: That’s no time at all, I can live it out like a knife.at like a knife (adv.) under knife, n.
N.Y. Herald 11 Mar. 4/4: When we saw [the plaintiff’s] want of seed tortured into a proof of cold-blooded conspiracy, we really realized the sententious force of the couplet ‘O, the curse of being in debt, / Without the means of paying it’.at seed, n.
N.Y. Herald 3 May 1/2: ‘A widow, that kept a sort of timber shop up town.’ ‘A timber shop, Cowan?’ ‘Yes, she sold matches and brooms.’.at timber, n.
N.Y. Herald 28 Apr. 2/2: In the morning finding that he was minus a watch and a X.at X, n.2
N.Y. Herald 9 May 2/3: V’s, X’s, L’s, and C’s of the Dry Dock Bank.at C, n.2
N.Y. Herald 9 May 2/3: V’s, X’s, L’s, and C’s of the Dry Dock Bank.at L, n.
(N.Y) Herald 4 Jan. 2/5: [The men] went into the tavern [...] where they commenced milling the glaze — (breaking windows), upsetting decanters, and shying the tumblers at the persons assembled.at mill the glaze (v.) under mill, v.1
N.Y. Herald 27 Jan. 2/1: I’ve been lucky tonight — I’ve made a raise of $20 and (touching his pocket) I have it here.at make a raise (v.) under raise, n.
N.Y. Herald 5 Oct. 2/3: When a [fellow gambler] is cleaned out — has lost all — they ‘make a raise,’ as it is called — one planks down his $50, another his $100, another his $200, and thus set him up with $5000 to start a [faro] bank, and try his luck again.at make a raise (v.) under raise, n.
N.Y. Herald 9 May 2/3: V’s, X’s, L’s, and C’s of the Dry Dock Bank.at V, n.1
N.Y. Herald 6 Apr. 2/5: Joe Lyon, and Jim Banta, two old stole [sic] pigeons, having ‘weighed their weight,’ as it is termed in flash parlance — meaning that they have been allowed to escape through the fingers of the police often enough.at weigh one’s weight (v.) under weigh, v.
N.Y. Herald 15 Jan. 2/4–5: Flat catching. [headline] [...] before him stood the identical flat catchers, who it seems had tried the same game on Mr. W., with whom it was ‘no go’ [Ibid.] 2/5: It seems almost a miracle that the catchers did not escape, as they were not detected until they were getting off the last ‘drop of Cogniac’ in their possession.at flat-catcher, n.1
N.Y. Herald 15 Jan. 2/4–5: Flat catching. [headline] [...] before him stood the identical flat catchers, who it seems had tried the same game on Mr. W., with whom it was ‘no go’.at flat-catching, n.
N.Y. Herald 15 Jan. 2/5: It seems almost a miracle that the catchers did not escape, as they were not detected until they were getting off the last ‘drop of Cogniac’ in their possession.at coney, n.1
N.Y. Herald 15 Jan. 2/5: On Monday evening two [thieves] were operating at the store No. 301 Grand street, when one of the counter jumpers secured them both.at counter-jumper, n.
N.Y. Herald 15 Jan. 2/4–5: Flat catching. [headline] [...] before him stood the identical flat catchers, who it seems had tried the same game on Mr. W., with whom it was ‘no go’.at no go, phr.
N.Y. Herald 15 Jan. 2/5: On making enquiry at the groggeries, [...] it was ascertained that several flats had been caught in the same net.at groggery, n.
N.Y. Herald 20 Feb. 1/5: Our report would be but a dull record of assaults and petty larcenies, but for the following gross case of neglect and inattention to the suffering of the wretched inmates of ‘the tombs’ which we were called on to investigate [DA].at Tombs, the, n.
N.Y. Herald 7 Feb. 2/2–3: When they can raise a cool X. they drive as far as Bradshaw’s, and dine. When they can only circumvent a V., they stop at the Red House, or at the Widow’s.at V, n.1
N.Y. Herald 3 Sept. 2/3: [headline] A GANG OF BAGGAGE SMASHERS CAPTURED.at baggage-smasher (n.) under baggage, n.
N.Y. Herald 2/1: Some were so uncharitable as to say ‘I hope in God both [duellists] may get their hot corn’.at get one’s hot corn (v.) under corn, n.1
N.Y. Herald 25 Dec. 1/5: [headline] Store Hookers.at hooker, n.1
N.Y. Herald 13 Dec. 2/5: Another ‘Cogniacker’ Arrested. Artemas, Brundige, a well known ‘Cogniaker’ or manufacturer of counterfeit and altered notes.at koniacker, n.
N.Y. Herald 16 Nov. 2/5: The soaplock fashion of wearing the hair is about coming again into practice among the ‘round rimmers.’.at soap lock, n.
N.Y. Herald 16 Nov. 2/5: The soaplock fashion of wearing the hair is about coming again into practice among the round rimmers.at round rimmer (n.) under round, adj.
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