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[UK] Whores Rhetorick 128: The lady Abbess took leave of her young Probationer.
at abbess, n.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 139: And because he must be deficient in the more substantial performances, it is necessary, he thinks, to talk big.
at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 219: It is most convinient to make her Markets under a disguise [...] she avoids the inconvienience of being Fly-blown, or blasted by the contagious Eyes of any sparkish Cabal.
at fly-blown, adj.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 168: I should love to bubble such conceited Coxcombs.
at bubble, v.1
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 143: This then must needs be a fit time to chouse the old Cully out of a Summ.
at chouse, v.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 114: It is supposed, a Lady of good practice may have each day many Clients knocking at the Closet door: by which means the Stairs will be wet and the Passage slippery, by the frequency of those that come with Fee in hand, to discharge themselves.
at closet, n.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 111: As in other Trades, they that are richest, are ever thought to be furnished with the best Commodities, have most Customers, and sell their Ware at the dearest rates. [Ibid.] 114: Let her Frenchifie her Commodities, or, (to avoid ribbaldry) her Merchandize, not with that Country Pox, but with hard names, and Je ne sçaiquois.
at commodity, n.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 45: How thinkest thou might the Cullies be handled by Women of sense and understanding?
at cully, n.1
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 205: A good Dame can blind the good Mans Eyes.
at dame, n.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 73: The most convenient habitation for a Trading Lady, is in a small convenient House of her own.
at trading dame, n.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 61: I am not desirous to hear any more of the Lawyers; those dragled-tail’d fellows (as I heard my Father say).
at draggle-tailed, adj.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 182: I remember to have heard of one honest Whore [...] Who refused the Son entrance, because the Father had already travelled that road.
at entrance, n.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 75: These by-places, these dark Conventicles, for the entertainment of the family of Love, are moreover extream necessary.
at family of love (n.) under family, n.1
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 140: You make me fancy I see the old Fobus before my Eyes.
at fobus, n.1
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 37: They might ’scape the Halter, starving in a corner, rotting of the Canker, or the French-Pox, if they were not silly idle, ridiculous, negligent, absurd asses.
at French pox (n.) under French, adj.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 112: Those then that are Frigates of a smaller size, and lower Rate, must be stored with ready and easy excuses, to palliate the disorder of their weak Tackling.
at frigate, n.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 167: The dexterous acting [...] will ever produce very advantagious effects: the deceived Gamester believing these amorous pangs created by himself.
at gamester, n.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick A5: Whilst the Gentleman is willing to purchase the Soil at any rate, you suffer him to sow the Seed; what he commonly reaps, you are best able to give an account of: and he that would grind with you, must pay the Toll before hand, even before he is permitted to bring his Grist to the Mill.
at grind, v.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 205: Men cheat those of another rank, and how they again in a different manner, slur on those same persons, that first made them swallow the Gudgeon.
at gudgeon, n.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 37: They might ’scape the Halter, starving in a corner, rotting of the Canker, or the French-Pox, if they were not silly idle, ridiculous, negligent, absurd asses.
at halter, n.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 172: The obscenity appears, of power to raise a luxuriant heat, and a beastly appetite.
at heat, n.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 178: If you would desire to maintain your Body in good order, you must be nicely cautious not to allow any commerce with Men noted to fly at all Games, and famous for never wanting a Neapolitan running-Nag.
at running horse, n.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 76: Will any Man be fond of a Ladies company, coming hot from the embraces of a Stranger?
at hot, adj.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 129: How does my Jewel do to Day, and how has she digested the Documents she lately received?
at jewel, n.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 19: I my self in my younger years, was one of those the World calls a Lady of Pleasure.
at lady of pleasure (n.) under lady, n.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 70: They themselves are rather more leaky; being as little able to keep an intrigue.
at leaky, adj.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 50: You must forget the distinction of Gentleman, and Mechanick; but let men be divided in your Books under the names of Poor, Rich, Liberal, and Niggardly.
at mechanic, n.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 114: Let her Frenchifie her Commodities, or, (to avoid ribbaldry) her Merchandize, not with that Country Pox, but with hard names, and Je ne sçaiquois.
at merchandise, n.
[UK] Whores Rhetorick A5: He that would grind with you, must pay the Toll before hand, even before he is permitted to bring his Grist to the Mill.
at mill, n.1
[UK] Whores Rhetorick 178: If you would desire to maintain your Body in good order, you must be nicely cautious not to allow any commerce with Men noted to fly at all Games, and famous for never wanting a Neapolitan running-Nag.
at Neapolitan, adj.
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