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[UK] G. Turbervile ‘To his Friend P.’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets (1810) II 602/2: To shake the bones and cog the craftie Dice.
at roll the bones (v.) under bones, n.1
[UK] G. Turbervile ‘A Promise’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets (1810) II 618/2: The Chuffes for greedie gaine / and lukers loone expende / Their New yeares gifts upon their Lords / as erie yeare hath ende.
at chuff, n.1
[UK] G. Turbervile ‘To his Friend P.’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets (1810) II 602/2: To shake the bones and cog the craftie Dice.
at cog, v.
[UK] G. Turbervile ‘Of Two Desperate Men’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets (1810) II 647/1: The greedie Carle came within a space [...] and saw the pot behinde / Where Ruddocks lay.
at ruddock, n.
[UK] G. Gascoigne in Chalmers Eng. Poets II 571: Beautie shut up thy shop [i.e. mouth] .
at shut up (one’s) shop (v.) under shop, n.1
[UK] G. Gascoigne Councell giuen to Master B. Withipoll in Chalmers Eng. Poets II (1810) 533/1: First, in thy journey jape not ouer much.
at jape, v.
[UK] G. Gascoigne ‘Philomene’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets II (1810) 562/1: Or womans wil (perhappes) Enflamede hir haughtie harte To get more grace by crimes of cost, And prinake it out hir parte.
at prink, v.
[UK] F. Beaumont Answer of Ale to the Challenge of Sack in Chalmers Eng. Poets (1810) VI 208/2: Come all you brave wights, That are dubbed ale-knights.
at ale-knight (n.) under ale, n.
[UK] F. Beaumont Answer of Ale to the Challenge of Sack in Chalmers Eng. Poets (1810) VI 208/2: Ale’s the true liquor of life / Men liv’d long in health / [...] Whilst barley-broth was rife.
at barley broth (n.) under barley, n.1
[UK] F. Beaumont Answer of Ale to the Challenge of Sack in Chalmers Eng. Poets (1810) VI 208/2: Ale is not so costly / Although that the most lye / Too long by the oyle of barley.
at oil of barley (n.) under oil of..., n.
[UK] W. Drummond ‘Thais’ Matamorphosis’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets V 666/1: I wish you not a hundred arms nor hands, But hundred things like those With which Priapus in our garden stands.
at stand, v.1
[UK] W. Drummond Epigram XII in Chalmers Eng. Poets (1810) V 695/1: When time should on her more years bestow, [...] That horse’s hair between her thighs would grow [...] But that this phrenzy should no more her vex, She swore thus bearded were their weaker sex.
at beard, n.
[UK] W. Drummond Epigram 1X in Chalmers Eng. Poets (1810) V 694/2: Flora [...] Naked Alcide’s statue did behold; And with delight admired each am’rous limb [...] To such tall joints a taller club belonge’d – The club hung by his thigh.
at club, n.
[UK] Donne Elegy on Mistress Boulstred in Johnson Works Eng. Poets V 188/2: We, to live, our bellows wear, and breath.
at bellows, n.
[UK] Donne Satire VI in Chalmers Eng. Poets (1810) V 160/2: I found him thoroughly taught In curing burns. His thing had more scars Than T... himself.
at thing, n.
[UK] A. Brome ‘To his Friend that had Vowed Small-Beer’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets II (1810) 648/ I: Dost thou think by turning anchorite, Or a dull small-beer sinner, Thy cold embraces can invite, Or sprightless courtship win her?
at small beer, adj.
[UK] J. Denham Poems in Chalmers Eng. Poets VII (1810) 245: Being as worthy to sit On an ambling tit As thy predecessor Dory.
at tit, n.1
[UK] W. King ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets IX (1810) 284/2: A lady of prodigious fame, Whose hollow eyes and hopper breech Made common people call her witch.
at hopper arse, n.
[Ire] W. King ‘Mully of Mountown’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets IX (1810) 284/1: Pudding and beef I love; and cannot stoop To recommend your bonny-clapper soup.
at bonny-clapper, n.
[UK] Dorset ‘Song’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets VIII (1810) 345: The queen, overhearing what Betty did say, Would send Mr. Roper to take her away.
at Mr Roper (n.) under Mr, n.
[UK] Dorset ‘Song’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets VIII (1810) 345: The queen, overhearing what Betty did say, Would send Mr. Roper to take her away.
at roper, n.1
[UK] Swift ‘Vanbrugh’s House’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets XI (1810) 377/2: Van [...] Takes a French play as lawful prize, / Steals thence his plot and every joke. / Not one suspecting Jove would smoke.
at smoke, v.1
[UK] Swift ‘Answer by Mr. F--r’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets XI (1810) 378/1: In rigging he’s rich, though in pocket he’s poor; He cringes to courtiers, and cocks to the cits.
at rigging, n.1
[UK] W. King ‘The Art of Cookery’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets IX (1810) 245/2: He has promised to show me how to strike a lancet into the jugular of a carp, so as the blood may issue thence [...] and then will instantly perform the operation of stewing it in its own blood [...] But, let him use what claret he will in the performance, I will secure enough to drink your health.
at claret, n.
[UK] Swift ‘Elegy’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets XI (1810) 380/1: How Partridge made his optics rise, / From a shoe-sole to reach the skies.
at optic, n.
[UK] Swift ‘Catullus de Lesbia’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets XI (1810) 390/2: I curse her every hour sincerely, / Yet, hang me but I love her dearly.
at hang!, excl.
[UK] Swift ‘Cadenus & Vanessa’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets XI (1810) 394/1: I own, that out-of-fashion stuff / Becomes the creature well enough.
at stuff, n.
[UK] Swift ‘Horace B II Ode I’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets XI (1810) 399/1: Believe me, what thou’st undertaken / May bring in jeopardy thy bacon.
at bacon, n.1
[UK] Swift ‘Phyllis, or the Progress of Love’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets (1810) 403: For John was landlord, Phyllis hostess; They keep, at Staines, the old Blue Boar, / Are cat and dog, and rogue and whore.
at cat, n.1
[UK] Swift ‘To Mr. Delany’ in Chalmers Eng. Poets XI (1810) 404/1: What humour is, not all the tribe / Of logic-mongers can describe.
at -monger, sfx
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