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[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle III i: He takes me for a common Bail; a Knight o’th’ Post.
at bail, n.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle V i: To hide the defects thereof [...] As likely / The Baker-knees, or some strange shamble shanks.
at baker-kneed, adj.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle I i: You spirited men call Money Dirt and Mud.
at dirt, n.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle III ii: Truly but one that’s a Gamester amongst us at the ducking pond; a Cobler, but the neatest Fellow at Poetry.
at duckpond (n.) under duck, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle I i: Wee’ll talke i’th’ Coach / In, in, and furnish; and so through the Garden.
at Garden, the, n.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle V i: Your Hackney-jade to fetch your Chapman in.
at hackney, n.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle IV ii: What do yee cal’t? I shall never hit it.
at hit it, v.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle V i: What, you are off o’the hooks, me-thinks.
at off the hook(s) under hook, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle III ii: Perhaps for want of Hufty-tufties.
at hufty-tufty, n.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle II i: Shalt not i’fecks la, shalt not.
at i’fecks!, excl.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle II i: There will be some Rifling for some Jewell, / Or other rare Commodity.
at jewel, n.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle III ii: In the name of Peasantry, what Knight art thou, / If not the Knight of the Plough-share?
at knight of the..., n.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle III i: He takes me for a common Bail; a Knight o’th’ Post.
at knight of the post, n.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle III i: Had I rak’d Limbo, as I did the Compter, / I were not better fitted with a Copesmate.
at limbo, n.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle III ii: Truly but one that’s a Gamester amongst us at the ducking pond; a Cobler, but the neatest Fellow at Poetry.
at neat, adj.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle IV ii: Ods so, / There’ll be a show indeed.
at odso! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle I ii: Ods pity!
at ods pity! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle III i: Here she comes, and the Pimp whiskin with her.
at pimp whisk (n.) under pimp, n.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle V i: But is the house cleare, Sir, of all your Riflers?
at rifle, v.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle I ii: He was the President of the Can-quarrelling Fraternity, / Now call’d the Roaring brotherhood.
at roaring, adj.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle II i: Skipkennell, you shall turn Footman now, Skipkennell.
at skip-kennel (n.) under skip, v.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle I i: Slid, I had eene forgot.
at ’slid!, excl.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle III ii: O, I am tickled with it.
at tickled, adj.
[UK] R. Brome Damoiselle II ii: My Mare Sir: ’Twas the prettiest Tit.
at tit, n.1
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