1790 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
1790 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
1790 M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 56: Oh, cockatrice, don’t think of imposing on me.at cockatrice, n.
1790 M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 41: What, my dear Mr Flurry up in the cock loft.at cockloft, n.
1790 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.
1790 M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 18: I must take a little Daffy, – will you have a taste?at daffy, n.1
1790 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
1790 M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 43: [of a woman] Hackney’d as the pave—notorious, common — .at hackneyed, adj.
1790 M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 19: So, Mr. Longhead and Mr. Wronghead, you wise cabinet counsellors.at long-head, n.
1790 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
1790 M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 29: You are going to sigh away the evening with some fair incognita.at incognita, n.
1790 M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 43: [of a woman] Hackney’d as the pavé – notorious, common.at nymph of the pavé, n.
1790 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
1790 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.
1790 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.
1790 M.P. Andrews Better Late than Never 47: Thomas pay the coachman sixpence, councillor Coazem pays the other tester.at tester, n.1
1790 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