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[UK] S. Centlivre Gamester Act I: My evil Genius flings Am’s Ace before me.
at ambs-ace, n.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gamester Act III: What Business had you to get Children, without you had Cabbage enough to maintain ’em?
at cabbage, n.1
[UK] S. Centlivre Gamester Act I: To learn to cog a Die nicely, requires as good a Genius as the Study of the Mathematics.
at cog, v.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gamester Act I: Here is your true Dice [...] Here is your false, Sir, hey, how they run. Now, Sir, those we generally call Doctors.
at doctors, n.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gamester Act I: He is at shaking his Elbows over a Table [...] courting the Dice like a Mistress, and cursing them when he is disappointed.
at shake one’s elbow (v.) under elbow, n.1
[UK] S. Centlivre Gamester Act I: Hard-hearted Jew.
at Jew, n.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gamester Act I: Come, throw a Main, Sir, then I’ll instruct you how to nick it.
at nick it (v.) under nick, v.1
[UK] S. Centlivre Gamester Act V: Odsbud, sir, go to Angelica, this minute.
at odsbobs! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gamester Act III: The charming Company of half a Dozen Ladies [...] to behold their languishing Ogles with their Eyes.
at ogle, n.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gamester Act IV: There’s your two Pieces, Sir.
at piece, n.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gamester Act I: Ay, my Master pitch’d upon you.
at pitch on (v.) under pitch, v.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gamester act I: She that marries a Gamester that plays upon the Square, as the Fool your Master does, can expect nothing but an Alms-house for a Jointure.
at on the square under square, adj.
[UK] S. Centlivre Gamester Act IV: You owe me a Teaster.
at tester, n.1
[UK] S. Centlivre Gamester Act IV: Four, Trey-Ace.
at tray, n.1
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