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New Cheats of London Exposed choose

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[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 14: Having [...] promised, on detection of the bilk, to give him immediate notice.
at bilk, n.
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 27: While the person is gone over, the things are brushed, that is, carried off .
at brush, v.1
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 59: If the lender should trace him out and arrest him, his comrades bail him, which is called buck-bail.
at buck bail (n.) under buck, n.1
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 24: bullies [...] Their rendezvous is among bawds and whores; they eat their bread and fight their battles; hector and insult their cullies, gather sometimes their contribution and occasionally pimp, betray and set .
at bully, n.1
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 6: as 1770.
at cake, n.1
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 63: The Park is likewise a resort for usurers, who ply their in quest of young spend-thrifts, with whom they deal in the cent. per cent. way .
at cent per cent, n.
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 10: He must come down something handsome.
at come down, v.1
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 20: When they hit off the cully [...] they come to a convenient place where the mouth, as they term him, must needs observe. The spark that is in the front then drops the guinea.
at cully, n.1
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 10: He must come down something handsome.
at handsome, adv.
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 6: sharpers Most of them are men of respectable extraction [who] have squandered their fortune [...] Having been as they call it taken in themselves, they falsely infer their right to take in others.
at take in, v.
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 8: If poor John catches at the bait, they then put the liquor about briskly.
at John, n.
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 26: kid-layers. In this cheat there are always two or three sharpers concerned and it is generally practised at night.
at kid lay (n.) under kid, n.1
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 56: Swindling and the Mace are the newest methods of deceiving .
at mace, n.
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 57: The most artful deception of the swindlers [...] is what is called going upon the mace.
at on the mace under mace, n.
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 20: When they hit off the cully [...] they come to a convenient place where the mouth, as they term him, must needs observe.
at mouth, n.
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 22: quacks These are arrogant miscreants, that rob thousands, not only of their money but their health.
at quack, n.1
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 16: They have got a gentleman, whom they design to rook in among them .
at rook, v.1
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 24: bullies [...] Their rendezvous is among bawds and whores; they eat their bread and fight their battles; hector and insult their cullies, gather sometimes their contribution and occasionally pimp, betray and set .
at set, v.
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 17: setters These are servile despicable wretches, capable of every action base and sordid.
at setter, n.1
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 10: He must come down something handsome.
at something, adv.
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 10: Thus the poor, harmless honest man is trepanned [...] into a state of slavery.
at trapan, v.
[UK] New Cheats of London Exposed 44: as 1770 .
at wagon-hunter (n.) under wagon, n.
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