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Century Mag. 14 385/1: The fellow tried to brass it out, but Davney's tirade took him off his feet. He fell into a chair and could not say a word.at brass it out (v.) under brass, n.1
Century Mag. 14 385/1: The fellow tried to brass it out, but Davney's tirade took him off his feet. He fell into a chair and could not say a word. Century 16 573: I’ll git even weth the whole kit and tuck of you, by thunder! at whole kit and cargo (n.) under whole kit, n.
Century mag. (N.Y.) Oct. 837: Well, see all that flummer-diddle he got off about it.at flummadiddle, n.
Century Mag. (NY) Apr. 884/2: He traveled with a dusky valet, a silver-headed cane, two ruffled shirts, and a case of hair-triggers. His morning meal was a simple Kentucky breakfast—‘three cocktails and a chaw of terbacker’ .at Kentucky breakfast (n.) under Kentucky, adj.
Century mag. (N.Y.) Aug. 508/2: To do a rustling business is to carry on an active trade [DA].at rustling, adj.
Century mag. (N.Y.) Dec. 602: Caught out in a north-west sneezer.at sneezer, n.2
Century mag. (N.Y.) June 273: ‘I Suppose you’ll keep up your reading along with your law?’ ‘No [...] I’m going to bone right down to it.’ [DA].at bone, v.3
Century mag. (N.Y.) June 280: He got the huckleberry, as we used to say in college, on that particular text [HDAS].at huckleberry, n.
Century mag. (NY) XXVI. 915/2: To put it [the sum] up to twelve dollars...if she...showed any sconce for the business .at sconce, n.1
Century mag. (NY) XXXVII 407: I mought do it fur you, bein’ as how ye got so much slack-jaw.at slack-jaw (n.) under slack, n.1
Century Mag. 25 788: Take away this rest-day, and you [...] turn us into a nation of mere ‘workies’ .at worky, n.
Century mag. (N.Y.) Sept. 646: As wheelmen nowadays so greatly abound, the landlords profit by the arrangement .at wheelman, n.
Century mag. (N.Y.) Mar. 678: He kin preach all round any o’ yer Meth’dist bible-bangers.at bible-banger (n.) under bible, n.
Century Mag. (NY) Jan. 347/2: Nothing like short meter for taking the hifalutin out of stuff .at highfalutin, n.
in Century Mag. (NY) XXXV 950/1: Milliner’s wire [...] was used to give outline to the skyscraper bonnets of the day [DA].at sky-scraper, n.1
Century Mag. 31 226: There is no church and no antipodal rum repository within its borders.at rum repository (n.) under rum, n.2
Century mag. (N.Y.) May 113/1: We uns playd tergether w’en we wuz little tricks [DA].at trick, n.5
Century mag. (N.Y.) Jan. 412/2: He had always ‘bached it’ (lived as a bachelor) [DA].at bach (it), v.
‘Meisterschaft’ in Century Mag. XXXV 459/1: Whoever may ask us a Meisterschaft question shall get a Meisterschaft answer—and hot from the bat! at right off the bat (adv.) under bat, n.2
in Century Mag. (N.Y.)May 49: The slightest attempt at a break would result in their being shot down.at break, n.2
Century mag. (N.Y.) XXXVII 580/1: She... looked round on the circle of fresh-faced pen-drivers for explanation .at pen-pusher, n.
Century mag. (N.Y.) XXXVI 763/2: State treasury-notes were circulated in profusion, while ‘wild-cat’ bank-notes of all sorts, shapes, and sizes vied with the ‘shinplaster’ utterances [DA].at wildcat, adj.
Century Mag. Oct. 960/1: ’Nd lookin’ like a reg’lar queen — Th' mostest like I ever seen.at mostest, n.
Century mag. (N.Y.) Oct. 874/1: The pretty girl from the East is hardly enough of a ‘rusher’ to please the young Western masculine taste [DA].at rusher, n.
Century mag. (NY) XXXIX 227/1: Occasionally he would refer to the president of the Off-shore Wrecking Company, his former employer, as ‘that skin’.at skin, n.4
Century mag. (N.Y.) XLI 47/1: A heavy sleep evolved out of sauerkraut, sausages, and cider, lightly topped off with a mountain of crisp waffles .at top off, v.
Century Mag. 43 775: Old Aunt Viney told Uncle Ned — though I am not one to pay any attention to nigger news in general — that [etc.] .at nigger news (n.) under nigger, n.1
Century mag. (NY) Apr. 954: The defenders of old Virginia [...] not infrequently by force of circumstances were induced to take their turn in a more or less graceful ‘skedaddle’.at skedaddle, n.
in Century Mag. (N.Y.) Nov. 107/2: Subject to the whims and passions of various ‘jockers’, or protectors.at jocker, n.1
Century Mag. 47 107: The Western tramp is rough, often kind-hearted [...] The ‘blanket-stiff’ is perhaps the least violent of all; his long walking-tours seem to quiet his passion somewhat, and overcome his naturally wild tendencies.at blanket stiff (n.) under blanket, n.
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