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The Midnight Rambler; or, new nocturnal spy, for the present year. Containing a complete description of the modern transactions of London and Westminster, from the hours of nine in the evening, till six in the morning choose

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[UK] Midnight Rambler 19: He took the bantling in his arms.
at bantling, n.
[UK] Midnight Rambler 12: Observe, said he, the smart blade [...] whipped into his buckish garb.
at blade, n.
[UK] Midnight Rambler 12: Observe, said he, the smart blade [...] whipped into his buckish garb.
at buck, n.1
[UK] Midnight Rambler 20: It was a gold-finder’s waggon carrying treasure to a receptacle near Tottenham Court Road.
at gold-finder (n.) under gold, n.
[UK] Midnight Rambler 37: They were boozing hand to fist.
at hand-to-fist (adv.) under hand, n.1
[UK] Midnight Rambler 37: Well, said the old lump of sin, I have made thee a humming bowl that every draught you take shall make you wish for a sweetheart.
at humming, adj.
[UK] Midnight Rambler 17: In the purlieus of Wapping, they lord it over their customers like a boatswain over the jack tar.
at jack tar, n.1
[UK] Midnight Rambler 26: You spawn of a freshwater lubber, why don’t you bear a hand with the toddy.
at lubber, n.
[UK] Midnight Rambler 37: Well, said the old lump of sin, I have made thee a humming bowl that every draught you take shall make you wish for a sweetheart.
at lump, n.
[UK] Midnight Rambler 58: What a pox, says Will.
at what a pox! (excl.) under pox, n.1
[UK] Midnight Rambler 31: Young ’squire Sapscull was the reigning toast in every assembly of bucks and belles.
at sapscull (n.) under sap, n.2
[UK] Midnight Rambler 15: In this tippling age [...] there is scarcely a more profitable business, than that of selling malt and spirits.
at tipple, n.
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