1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 151: His mistress’s delicate white buttock turn’d up, and she produced her ace of trumps; whilst her young Amorist [...] pitch'd directly over a Chair, with his Head between her Haunches.at ace of trumps (n.) under ace, n.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 242: The pretended Yea and Nay laying close siege to his pockets, took out [...] 20 guineas.at yea and nay (man), n.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 151: She, being a cunning baggage [...] persisted still that it was done by witchcraft.at baggage, n.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 188: He us’d the false dice [...] wherefore such as play must have a special care that they have not Cinque-Deuces and Quarter-Treys put upon them.at barred, adj.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 254: They have been forced to put him [...] in the bilboes, or else the condemn’d hold.at bilbo, n.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 197: Whereupon his lordship supposing he was not in a capacity of paying 500 pounds in case he had lost, cry’d out, A bite, a bite.at bite, n.1
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 230: They have discover’d the clandestine methods he us’d to bite them in horse-matches at Newmarket.at bite, v.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 148: He follow’d cards and dice as much as ever, ’till they broke him. [Ibid.] 219: At last, having broke all the gamesters, he departed with his pockets full of gold.at break, v.1
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 181: The cleanest rooking way is by the Breef; that is, take a pack of cards, and open them, then take out all the honours, that is to say, the four Aces, Kings, Queens and Knaves, then take the rest, and cut a little from the edges of them all alike, by which means the honours will be broader than the rest.at brief, n.1
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 188: A broken tradesman, who had good business till he fell into gamesters hands.at broke, adj.1
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 225: His brethren in iniquity, from whom he also had a pension, for being [...] ready to fight, or rather bully for ’em.at bully, v.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 143: This fellow [i.e. Bully Dawson] was a noted bully about London for many years.at bully, n.1
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 147: To which Bully-hack thus reply’d, That if she doubted the truth of what he had said [etc.].at bully-hack (n.) under bully, n.1
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 186: Bullying and gaming, were the chief supports of his life, which made him a mighty man with the constables, beadles and bailiffs.at bullying, n.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 223: Those spunging caterpillars, who swarm where any Billiard-Tables are set up.at caterpillar, n.1
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 166: Once having chous’d Mr. Levingstone [...] out of 50 guineas at Locket’s Ordinary.at chouse, v.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 165: Shevalier has an excellent knack at cogging a die.at cog, v.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 261: A ravenous assembly of amphibian scoundrels [...] were ready to pluck them out of the windows of their leathern sanctuary.at leathern conveniency, n.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 160: His Honour was as easie as possible in that treacherous strumpet’s company.at easy, adj.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 231: Fellows who have other visible livelihood than that of shaking the elbow.at shake one’s elbow (v.) under elbow, n.1
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 182: He (being then [i.e. 1710] a Faggot in Colonel Charter’s Company, in the Foot-Guards).at faggot, n.2
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 191: Joe. I have got the French-Pox upon me.at French pox (n.) under French, adj.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 198: He had caused a great numbr of false dice to be made [...] high and low fullums.at fulhams, n.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 258: She wanted an heir to an estate, which otherwise upon her fumbling husband’s decease might have parted from her to his relations.at fumble, v.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 257: He [...] concluded her to be one of the Long-Cellar ladies, who had put the high game upon him, by emptying his pockets.at put the high game upon (v.) under game, n.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 225: Thus would he catch several gudgeons for his brethren in iniquity.at gudgeon, n.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 264: This intolerable usage made Hewitt rave [...] like a horn-mad cuckold.at horn-mad, adj.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 183: He huff’d me, and said, Sure, Mr Hurley had not made my Lady so mean, as to trade with cits with their paultry notes.at huff, v.
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 232: One, Mary Wadsworth, a jilt of the town.at jilt, n.1
1714 T. Lucas Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 137: He was not ignorant in Knapping, which is, striking one die dead, and let the other run a Milstone, as the gamester’s phrase is, either at Tables or Hazard.at knap, v.