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[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse IV v: Ha my Bird, my Chick! Kiss me.
at bird, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse II vi: What a Bulfinch is this! sure ’tis his language they call Bull-speaking.
at bull, n.2
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse II vi: What a Bulfinch is this! sure ’tis his language they call Bull-speaking.
at bullfinch, n.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse II i: A Butter-print?
at butter-print (n.) under butter, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse I v: Are you the Cock-bawd to the Hen was here, erewhile Sir.
at cock-bawd (n.) under cock, n.3
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse III ii: Oh he’s a Rare Fellow, he’ll tickle a Whore in Coany.
at cony, n.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse IV v: I will return to thee in the Evening, Duck.
at duck, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse III ii: When I was a Batchelor, how I could have handled this geere [...] I will in and handle this geere in privitie.
at gear, n.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse III ii: Now the gigs up.
at gig, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse I v: Are you the Cock-bawd to the Hen was here, erewhile, Sir.
at hen, n.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse III ii: I should not be so fond to mistake a Jennie Howlet for a Taffel Gentle.
at Madge Howlet, n.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse III ii: Put her to’t I say, to’t directlie.
at it, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse V i: I’le be none of his Ligby for twice so mickle.
at ligby, n.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse I iv: What a mischeievous Maw has this she Canibal that gapes for me!
at maw, n.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse I iv: She might ha’ been Mother o’ the Maids, as well, to my seeming; or a Matron.
at mother of the maids (n.) under mother, n.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse II iii: Here’s half a Peece to buy thee Complection, Sack, or Aqua-vitae.
at piece, n.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse IV iv: I doubt your middle finger is too short, Mr. Widgine.
at potato-finger (n.) under potato, n.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse IV ii: I have in all found you a right worthie Gentleman.
at right, adv.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse V viii: I will change you most confus’d Roarer, into an accomplisht Knight.
at roarer, n.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse I iv: ’Slid I’le marrie out of the way.
at ’slid!, excl.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse V viii: I will spowt some Cornish at him.
at spout, v.1
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse III i: I a pox squelch him.
at squelch, v.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse III iii: Stir but a foot sirrah, or utter but a sillable and I’le cut your thrattle-pipe.
at throttle, n.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse V vi: Humphrey, and I with the tricks and trinkets we have about us, will cure the mad Maids of her standing in the Town.
at trinkets, n.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse I v: Captain Anvile, a notable lecherous Tuppe: He has been at me for a bitout of my Masters flock anuie time these three Weeks.
at tup, n.1
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse I iv: Farewell old Whiskin.
at whiskin, n.
[UK] R. Brome Northern Lasse I iv: A Divell in a most gentlewomanlike apparition. It had been well to have pumpd her. Is shee gone?
at pump, v.
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