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Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 151: His mistress’s delicate white buttock turn’d up, and she produced her ace of trumps.at ace of trumps (n.) under ace, n.
Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 151: His mistress’s delicate white buttock turn’d up, and she produced her ace of trumps. 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.
Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 151: She, being a cunning baggage [...] persisted still that it was done by witchcraft.at baggage, n.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 188: A broken tradesman, who had good business till he fell into gamesters hands.at broke, adj.1
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.
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
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
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.
Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 223: Those spunging caterpillars, who swarm where any Billiard-Tables are set up.at caterpillar, n.1
Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 166: Once having chous’d Mr. Levingstone [...] out of 50 guineas at Locket’s Ordinary.at chouse, v.
Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 165: Shevalier has an excellent knack at cogging a die.at cog, v.
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.
Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 160: His Honour was as easie as possible in that treacherous strumpet’s company.at easy, adj.
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
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
Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 191: Joe. I have got the French-Pox upon me.at French pox (n.) under French, adj.
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.
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.
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.
Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 225: Thus would he catch several gudgeons for his brethren in iniquity.at gudgeon, n.
Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 264: This intolerable usage made Hewitt rave [...] like a horn-mad cuckold.at horn-mad, adj.
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.
Lives of the Gamesters (1930) 232: One, Mary Wadsworth, a jilt of the town.at jilt, n.1
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.
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