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Teague-Root Display’d choose

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[UK] Teague-Root Display’d [pamphlet] At the Bottom of the Root issue two round Globes, that are pendulous in a Bag.
at bag, n.1
[UK] Teague-Root Display’d cover: Paddy Strong-Cock, Fellow of Drury-lane [...] He moveth his Tail like a Cedar, and his Strength lyeth in the Navel of his Belly.
at cock, n.3
[UK] Teague-Root Display’d [cover] Being some Useful and Important Discoveries [...] From Paddy Strong-Cock, Fellow of Drury-lane.
at Paddy, n.
[UK] Teague-Root Display’d 10: It’s a broad Root with a hole perforated thro’ it, which will contract, or dilate itself on Occasion like the Mouth of a Purse.
at purse, n.
[UK] Teague-Root Display’d 10: There are two Kinds of this Root, the Male and Female [...] the Female is not so beautiful a Root; it’s a broad Root with a Hole perforated thro’ it.
at root, n.1
[UK] Teague-Root Display’d 10: At the Bottom of the Root issue two round Globes, that are pendulous in a Bag.
at root, n.1
[UK] Teague-Root Display’d 11: The Male Teague-Root [...] becomes as stiff as a Poker.
at stiff as a poker (adj.) under stiff, adj.
[UK] Teague-Root Display’d cover: Paddy Strong-Cock, Fellow of Drury-lane [...] He moveth his Tail like a Cedar, and his Strength lyeth in the Navel of his Belly.
at tail, n.
[UK] Teague-Root Display’d 16: They are as much inflamed, as a School-Boy, when he first tumbles his Mother’s Maid in a Hay-Cock.
at tumble, v.1
[UK] E.M. Hammel Root 134: The others punctuated the epithet with a solid ‘Oorah’ Devildog grunt.
at devil dogs (n.) under devil, n.
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