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[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 335: If lusty Doll, mayde of the dary / Chance to be blew-nipte by the Fayry, / For making butter with her tayle; / I’le give her that did never fayle.
at make butter with one’s tail (v.) under butter, n.1
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 326: Capringe Kate, of Clarkenwell, claymes to hold of his Highnes five cunyborowes [...] by night-service, to hold play for five Gentlemen Ushers, each of them with a ferret and two tumblers, weekly.
at cony-burrow (n.) under cony, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum (1688) 66: To conclude, they burn all those Vessels that transport any dry Wares into the Low-Countries.
at low countries, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 327: The Priories of Cunnington claime to hold as of the Burrow of Greter Cuniliana, in Borough English, to find a ringe for his Highnes Knights to runn, at every coronation.
at cunny, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 335: If lusty Doll, mayde of the dary / Chance to be blew-nipte by the Fayry, / For making butter with her tayle; / I’le give her that did never fayle.
at doll, n.1
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 337: If any woman be trobled with fallinge sicknes, let her not travayle Westwardhoe, because she must avoyde the Isle of Man; and for that it is an evill only outward into her, let her for a charme alwayes have her leggs acrosse when she is not walkinge, and this will healpe her.
at falling sickness, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 326: Capringe Kate, of Clarkenwell, claymes to hold [...] play for five Gentlemen Ushers, each of them with a ferret and two tumblers, weekly.
at ferret, n.2
[UK] Gesta Grayorum (1688) 25: All such Persons as shall put or cast into any [...] Pits, Pools, [...] or River, salt or fresh; the same Fish being then of insufficiency in Age and Quantity.
at fish, n.1
[UK] Gesta Grayorum (1688) 18: Rendring to the Master of the Ward-rope so much Cunny-Furr as will serve to line his Night-Cap.
at fur, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum (1688) 26: Does, Hares, or Coneys, or other Gentlemen’s Game.
at hare, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 324: His Highnes Master of the Ordinance claimes to have all peece guld in the touch-hole, or broken within the ringe, togeather with all burnt and unsufficient charges and scowringe-sticks, as fees and avayles appendant to his office, and to place the ordinance himselfe against the intended place of battery, but not to enter the breach in person unles it be faire and free from fyer.
at touch-hole, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 330: The feodary of the superior and inferior Honylania hath certefyed, that whereas the Committe of Dulcebella, one of his Highnes female wards, hath placed them with Libidinosa, an Italian schoolemaster [...] [he] taught her rules of gramar, viz. the English Syntaxis.
at honeypot, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 335: Maids of the chamber or the kitchin, / If you be troubled with an itchin, / Come give me but a kisse or two, / I’le give you that shall soone cure you.
at itch, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 326: Capringe Kate, of Clarkenwell, claymes to hold of his Highnes five cunyborowes [...] by night-service, to hold play for five Gentlemen Ushers, each of them with a ferret and two tumblers, weekly.
at kate, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 327: John the pander claimes to hold [...] two tenements called the Cunyborrowes, lyinge in Stinke Court, by townage in capita, to finde three Flanders mares yearly, for sixe of his Highnes Black Guard, to ride uppon any Requiem.
at mare, n.1
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 332: Heer’s waters to quench maidens fyres, / Here’s spiritts for old occupiers.
at occupy, v.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum (1688) 19: He do provide for a Mess of the Yeomen of the Guard [...] eight Loins of Mutton [...] and for every Gentleman-Pensioner [...] Coneys, Pidgeons, Chickens, or such dainty Morsels.
at pigeon, n.1
[UK] Gesta Grayorum (1688) 19: Three hundred able and sufficient labouring Men, [...] also shall repair and mend all common High and Low-Ways, by laying stones in the Pits and naughty places.
at pit, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum (1688) 17: A Choir of Nuns, with burning Lamps to chaunt Placebo to the Gentlemen of the Prince’s Privy-Chamber.
at sing a placebo (v.) under placebo, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 339: Rich widdowes were ordeined for younger brothers; for they, beinge borne to noe lande, must plough in another man’s soyle.
at plough, v.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum (1688) 66: Known to have born nine hundred fighting Men in her Poup.
at poop, n.1
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 327: John the pander claimes to hold [...] two tenements called the Cunyborrowes, lyinge in Stinke Court, by townage in capita, to finde three Flanders mares yearly, for sixe of his Highnes Black Guard, to ride uppon any Requiem.
at ride, v.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 339: ’Tis dangerous to wed a widdowe; for she hath cast her rider.
at rider, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 327: The Priories of Cunnington claime to hold as of the Burrow of Greter Cuniliana, in Borough English, to find a ringe for his Highnes Knights to runn, at every coronation.
at ring, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum (1688) 18: One Amazon, with a Ring to be run at by the Knights of the Prince’s Band.
at running at the ring (n.) under ring, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum (1688) 25: All such persons as, for Lucre and Gain of Living, do keep or maintain, or else frequent and resort unto any common House, Alley, open or privy place of unlawful Exercises; as of Vaulting [...] or any forbidden manner of Shooting; as at Pricks in common High-ways [...] or at short Butts, not being of sufficient length and distance, or at any roving or unconstant Mark, or that shoot any Shafts, Arrows, or Bolts of unseasonable Wood or Substances.
at shoot, v.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 334: Is any so spente, that his wife keeps Lent? / Does any waste in his marrow? Is any lugge? let him taste of my drugg, / ’Twill make him as quicke as a sparrow.
at spend, v.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 335: If lusty Doll, mayde of the dary / Chance to be blew-nipte by the Fayry, / For making butter with her tayle; / I’le give her that did never fayle.
at tail, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 309: An Esquire of the Prince’s Company, attended by a Tartarian Page.
at tartarian, n.
[UK] Gesta Grayorum in J. Nichols Progresses and Processions of Queen Elizabeth (1823) III 336: Let him but once use the exercise of swingeing, and stretching himselfe uppon the soveraigne tree of Tiburnia.
at triple tree, n.
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