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[UK] Parliament of Women B4: Mistris Dorcas Doe-little [...] saith she, my husband is a Gamester and [...] when he with his Sweet-hearts ventures his state at the Hole, I with his servant can passe away the time at In and In .
at play (at) in and in (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] Parliament of Women B4: Mistris Dorcas Doe-little [...] saith she, my husband is a Gamester and [...] when he hath been all the day at passage and hazard, at night he comes home and playes with me at Doublets, Baramel-ace and backegammon .
at play backgammon (v.) under backgammon, n.
[UK] Parliament of Women B4: If he cog and offer to kisse you, bid him take you about the middle and kiss the heaviest end .
at cog, v.
[UK] Parliament of Women B4: Rachael Rattle-a-pace [said] so I hope that I bringing my sack to the mill, it may be ground among the rest.
at grind, v.
[UK] Parliament of Women B4: Mistris Dorcas Doe-little [...] saith she, my husband is a Gamester and as he games abroad, so I play at home; if he bee at bowles and kisse the Mistris, I can for recreation play at rubbers with his man.
at kiss, v.
[UK] Parliament of Women B4: After spake Mistris Rachel Rattle a pace [etc].
at rattle, v.
[UK] Parliament of Women n.p.: I hope that I bringing my Sacke to the Mill, it may be grinded .
at sack, n.
[UK] Parliament of Women B4: Then rose up Mrs. Rattlebooby, and said I intreat that I may have a finger in the pye too as well as the rest: a fooles bolt (like my husbands) is soon shot.
at shoot one’s bolt (v.) under shoot, v.
[UK] Parliament of Women B4: The chiefe heads of the womens Lawe […] That women may twang it as well as their husbands.
at twang, v.1
[UK] Parliament of Women B4: When he with his sweet-hearts ventures his state at the hole, I with his servant can passe away time at In and In.
at in-and-out, n.1
[UK] Parliament of Women B4: Mistris Tabitha Teare-sheete then stood up and began to puffe and sniffe, and said [...] if they be shrewish or shie, try it out with them at sharp, or if beetle-head and blockish, with blunter weapons.
at blockish (adj.) under block, n.1
[UK] Parliament of Women B4: That man which promises a pritty Maid a good turn, and doth not perform it within three moneths, shall loose his what do you call them.
at what-do-you-call-it, n.
[UK] Parliament of Women B4: Mistris Dorcas Doe-little [...] saith she, my husband is a Gamester and as he games abroad, so I play at home.
at gamester, n.
[UK] Parliament of Women C: She have a mind to take the aire, or walke to Green-goose Fair.
at green goose (n.) under green, adj.1
[UK] Parliament of Women B: Every musket must have a scouring sticke, and every Gun must have a rammer, and every pen must be dipped in inke.
at gun, n.1
[UK] Parliament of Women B3: Mistris Eleanor Ever-crosse: I hit him home, which was more than ever he did to me and then I had him on the hip; and you should have kept him so when you had him there (replyed Mary Malepart).
at on the hip under hip, n.3
[UK] Parliament of Women B4: You speak wel in that said Mrs. Bridget Bold-face for why should we toyl and turmoyl for our horn-headed and hard-headed husbands.
at horn-headed (adj.) under horn, n.1
[UK] Parliament of Women C: Mistris Dorothy Do-little, said my goodman came home drunk the other day, and [...] he hid himselfe in the house of Office, and their began to ease his stomacke.
at house of office (n.) under house, n.1
[UK] Parliament of Women 12: That damn’d fowl Italian sin of poking for Generation in the Bowels of their own Sex; to the great Scorn, Contempt, Neglect, and reproach of the whole Commonweal of Women.
at Italian sin (n.) under Italian, adj.
[UK] Parliament of Women B4: If he cog and offer to kisse, and tell you that he will kisse you, bid him take you about the middle and kisse the heaviest end; or if he faile, she may read him a Juniper Lecture.
at juniper lecture, n.
[UK] Parliament of Women B4: Rachael Rattle-a-pace [said] so I hope that I bringing my sack to the mill, it may be ground among the rest.
at mill, n.1
[UK] Parliament of Women 12: That damn’d fowl Italian sin of poking for Generation in the Bowels of their own Sex; to the great Scorn, Contempt, Neglect, and reproach of the whole Commonweal of Women.
at poke, v.
[UK] Parliament of Women A4: I confess he is saddle-nos’d and saddlebackt too, but never could set the saddle on the right horse.
at saddle, n.
[UK] Parliament of Women B: She cannot be content to lye alone tumbling and tossing in a good featherbed, [...] sighing and groaning, as if her very twatling strings would breake.
at twattling-strings, n.
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