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[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 19: Saint Martin and Saint Urban guard all Ale-Knights, Tauerne-Hunters, and Drunkards, from falling into the Kennell.
at ale-knight (n.) under ale, n.
[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 10: A companie of Roaring-boye, alias Brothers of the Sword, come by.
at brother (of the)..., n.
[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 15: The Gypsies Canting Tongue.
at canting, n.
[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 51: All the cunnycatching Knaues about London.
at cony-catching, adj.
[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 35: Penurious as the Irish Catch-pole, that will feed his Dogges with Rabbets in Lent, while he sits eating a piece of poore John.
at catchpole, n.
[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 51: There was not a Mayde that had not gotten a clappe before she was marryed.
at clap, n.
[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 32: Most of the Varlets belonging to the Citie Colledges (I meane both the prodigious Compters) haue fierie red faces, that they cannot put a Cup of Nippitato to their Snowts, but with the extreme heat that doth glow from them, they make it cry hisse againe.
at college, n.
[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 42: Some twentie yeeres before his death [he] told Cuffe our Countreyman [...] that hee should come to an vntimely end.
at cuff, n.1
[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 7: I am going home againe purposing thereafter to take heed of two Pick-pockets; the one, the Diuer that met with me in Pauls Church-yard; the other, the Doctor in Moore-fields, that rob’d me as well as the first.
at diver, n.
[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 32: If Tom Todd and his fellow flesh-dressers had not quencht those inflamations, many three-chin’d Bawd, dry-fisted Punke, and biskit-handed Pandar would haue had all their hayre burnt off long ere this.
at flesh-dresser (n.) under flesh, n.
[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 10: Leauing not a Pick-pockets, Gilts, Lifts, Decoyes, or Dyvers Hose vnsurueyed.
at gilt, n.2
[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 48: A Crew of these Hedgecreepers [came] trooping through Essex, telling Fortunes as they went: but at the last, the Constable [...] apprehended them.
at hedge-creeper (n.) under hedge, adj.
[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 52: Cut their meat after an Italian fashion, weare their hat and feather after a Germaine hufty.
at hufty-tufty, n.
[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 33: It will do all the Compter-Kites as much good as the World can desire.
at kite, n.
[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 10: Leauing not a Pick-pockets, Gilts, Lifts, Decoyes, or Dyvers Hose vnsurueyed.
at lift, n.
[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 32: Most of the Varlets belonging to the Citie Colledges (I meane both the prodigous Compters) haue fierie red faces, that they cannot put a Cup of Nippitato to their Snowts, but with the extreme heat that doth glow from them, they make it cry hisse againe.
at nipitate, n.
[UK] J. Melton Astrologaster 35: Penurious as the Irish Catch-pole, that will feed his Dogges with Rabbets in Lent, while he sits eating a piece of poore John.
at poor john (n.) under poor, adj.
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