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[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 31: Literati; what in blue stockings, heh!.
at blue, n.1
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 30: See, the lads are at it [i.e. dicing] already – the bones are in motion.
at bones, n.1
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 40: If I can but get safe into the street, little Pallet will soon brush off.
at brush, v.1
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 20: Think you seem the happiest of the bunch.
at bunch, n.1
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 7: Dramatis Personae [...] Sir Charles Chouse.
at chouse, n.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 56: Oh, cockatrice, don’t think of imposing on me.
at cockatrice, n.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 41: What, my dear Mr Flurry up in the cock loft.
at cockloft, n.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 10: I was sadly ’fraid it would make you melancholy; and they tell me you’re already a cup too low.
at cup too low, a under cup, n.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 18: I must take a little Daffy, – will you have a taste?
at daffy, n.1
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 33: What, young flash away turned duellist!
at flash, n.1
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 46: My master, Councillor Gab, hath order’d me to run after you with a letter.
at gab, n.2
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 43: [of a woman] Hackney’d as the pave—notorious, common — .
at hackneyed, adj.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 19: So, Mr. Longhead and Mr. Wronghead, you wise cabinet counsellors.
at long-head, n.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 38: You must talk to him in High Dutch. [...] any jargon will suffice.
at high Dutch (n.) under high, adj.1
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 29: You are going to sigh away the evening with some fair incognita.
at incognita, n.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 43: [of a woman] Hackney’d as the pavé – notorious, common.
at nymph of the pavé, n.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 30: While he is pigeon’d it’s better I should be out of the way.
at pigeon, v.1
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 23: She is actually a married woman, whose husband is as rich as Croesus, and who knows [...] I may be able to dip in the same purse. She is confoundedly virtuous at present – but she has a damn’d deal of discernment.
at purse, n.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 12: Write your uncle, promise reformation [...] get him to raise the wind.
at raise the wind (v.) under raise, v.
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 47: Thomas pay the coachman sixpence, councillor Coazem pays the other tester.
at tester, n.1
[UK] M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 41: What, are you come to the Doctor to be curs’d with a touch.
at touch, n.1
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