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[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary V iv: I do not reche / One bean for all.
at bean, n.1
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary IV iii: ’Tis one that brought his pigs to the wrong market.
at bring one’s hogs to a fair market (v.) under bring, v.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary I ii: Kiss him, Chuck.
at chuck, n.1
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary II i: There is / An old rich clutch-fist knight, Sir Thomas Bitefig, / Invite him too.
at clutch-fisted, adj.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary III v: Thou violent cushion-thumper, hold thy tongue.
at cushion-thumper (n.) under cushion, n.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary IV i: Hell!—Death!—Damn’d luck!
at damned, adj.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary IV i: They all employed in making Mrs. Mahomet / New gowns against the time; hang dirty wealth.
at dirty, adj.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary III vi: This night you know he and his doxy meet.
at doxy, n.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary III v: Your beer is like my words, strong, stinging geare.
at gear, n.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary I iv: slic.: You must oil it first. cred.: I understand you: / Grease him i’th’ fist, you mean. There’s just ten pieces, / ’Tis but an earnest: If he bring’t about.
at grease someone in the fist (v.) under grease, v.1
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary IV i: Hell! — Death! — Damn’d luck!
at hell!, excl.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary II iii: Your high / And low men are but trifles: your pois’d dye / That’s ballasted with quicksilver or gold / Is gross to this.
at high men (n.) under high, adj.1
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary IV ii: If that thou dost, by Jove I’ll strangle thee.
at by Jove! (excl.) under Jove, n.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary II iii: Your high / And low men are but trifles: your pois’d dye / That’s ballasted with quicksilver or gold / Is gross to this.
at lowmen (n.) under low, adj.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary II v: Marry! a very comendable fault.
at marry!, excl.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary II i: Stout Mr. Have-it-all, / Let’s be sworn brothers.
at Mr, n.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary V v: Nosing a little treason ’gainst the King.
at nose, v.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary II iv: ’Odsnigs I guess’d so.
at ods nigs! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary I iv: slic.: You must oil it first. cred.: I understand you: / Grease him i’th’ fist, you mean. There’s just ten pieces, / ’Tis but an earnest: If he bring’t about.
at oil, v.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary IV iii: I shall / Blaze out sir-reverence, if ye do not quench me.
at sir-reverence, n.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary II v: ’Slid, father, you’re the strangest man.
at ’slid!, excl.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary III ii: ’Snigs, another! / A very perillous head, a dangerous brain!
at ’sniggers!, excl.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary I ii: Out you base companions, you stinking swabbers.
at swabber, n.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary IV iv: Gull’d by my swear, by my swear gull’d.
at swear, n.
[UK] W. Cartwright Ordinary IV i: I took one Andrew Credulous this morning / In dishonest adultery with a trull.
at trull, n.
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