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[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Philaster III i: Are not her breasts two liquid Ivory balls?’.
at balls, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Philaster II iv: She’ll cog and lie with a whole army before the League shall break.
at cog, v.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Philaster V iii: Ile soile you euer[y] long vacation a brace of foremen, that at Michaelmas shall come vp fat and kicking.
at foreman, n.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Philaster III i: ‘Why should you think the Princess light?’ ‘Why, she was taken at it.’.
at at it under it, n.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Philaster V iv: We are thy myrmidons, thy guard, thy roarers.
at roarer, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Philaster II iv: Come, ladies, shall we take a round? as men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour after supper .
at round, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Philaster IV i: Shot him between wind and water.
at shot between wind and water (adj.) under shot, adj.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Captain IV ii: Adieu, sweet bully Captain.
at bully, adj.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Captain I ii: for.: You know the juggling captain? clown: Ay; there’s a sure card .
at sure card (n.) under card, n.2
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Captain II i: To make you [...] Come to be married to my lady’s woman, After she’s crack’d i’ the ring.
at cracked in the ring (adj.) under cracked, adj.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Captain IV iii: [She] is the best, that e’re man laid his leg o’er.
at lay the leg (v.) under lay, v.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Captain IV v: Though you perform, As you think, little, yet you satisfy My appetite.
at perform, v.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Captain IV ii: jac.: ’Twere good she had a little foolish money, To rub the time away with. host: Not a rag, Not a denier.
at rag, n.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase IV i: She was first a Ladies Chamber-maid, there slip’d And broke her leg above the knee.
at break a leg, v.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase IV ii: Do not I know thee for a pestilent Woman? A proud at both ends?
at end, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase III i: ros.: Bless your manhood: They say ye are a Gentleman of Action, A fare accomplishe’d man; and a rare Engineer. [...] mir.: Yes forsooth; I have a speedy trick: please you to try it: My Engine will dispatch ye instantly.
at engine, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase I i: My thing is Marriage: And at his return I hope to put their squint-eyes right again.
at squinny-eyes, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase I ii: ’Tis but fleshing, But standing one good brunt or two.
at flesh (it) (v.) under flesh, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase IV i: She is an English whore, a kind of fling-dust, One of your London light-o’-loves.
at fling-dust (n.) under fling, v.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase II iii: It seems ye are hot, the suburbs will supply ye, Goood women scorn such Gamesters.
at gamester, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase IV ii: Am I greas’d once again?
at grease, v.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase II iii: It seems ye are hot, the suburbs will supply ye.
at hot, adj.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase IV i: Her name is Jumping-Jone, an ancient Sin-Weaver.
at joan, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase III i: I hate him, And would be marryed sooner to a Monkey, Or to a Jack of Straw, than such a Juggler.
at juggler, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase VI i: One of your London light o’ loves, a right one! Came over in these pumps, and half a petticoat.
at light o’ love, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase I iii: Od’s-bobs, yu are angry, Lady.
at odsbobs! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase III i: Give me a man brings Mettle. Brings substance with him, needs no Brothes to Lare him [...] Give me the puissant Pike, take you the small Shot.
at pike, n.1
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase IV ii: A Dairy-Maid? A Tinkers-Trull: Heaven bless me.
at trull, n.
[UK] Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase IV ii: Thou Wag-tail, Peacock, Puppy; look on me: I am a Gentleman.
at wagtail, n.
[UK] Fletcher Rule a Wife I i: She has a greedy eye that must be fed With more than one mans meat.
at meat, n.
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