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The Heir at Law choose

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[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law I i: Why, blood and thunder!
at blood and ’ounds!, excl.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law III iii: To be sure you have; as sure as eggs is eggs.
at sure as hogs are made of bacon under sure as..., phr.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law I ii: Tip us your daddle, Zekiel.
at tip us your daddle under daddle, n.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law III ii: This is all the go, they say! — cut straight that’s the thing.
at all the go (adj.) under go, n.1
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law V ii: But have you heard nothing yet of the high tone, my lord.
at high-tone, n.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law I ii: If I hadn’t got out to take the reins [...] I should have been as muzzy as a methodist parson.
at muzzy, adj.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law III ii: This is all the go, they say! [...] Slouch is the word, now, you know.
at no slouch, n.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law I ii: Od rabbit it, girl! I be only chicken-hearted on your account.
at od rot it! under od, n.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law I i: Odsbobs, my lady!
at odsbobs! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law II ii: Ods flesh! — gi’ us your fist, Dick!
at odsflesh! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law II i: He ended, with his respects, and a parcel of palaver, to you.
at palaver, n.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law II ii: Pish, now you be queering a body.
at queer, v.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law I ii: Rabbit it! I be ready to choke for joy!
at rabbit, v.1
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law I i: Dick be a little rantipolish, but as generous a lad—.
at rantipole, n.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law III ii: There’s all Horace’s Operas, doctor,—and such a sight of French books!
at sight, n.2
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law III iii: A drop of wine, now—or a sneaker of punch.
at sneaker, n.1
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law II ii: Let’s ha’ a squint at you.
at squint, n.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law III ii: With a wig as wide as a wash-tub, and stuck up as stiff as a poker.
at stiff as a poker (adj.) under stiff, adj.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law III ii: He was one of your tip-tops, too [...] he carried a gold stick before George the First.
at tip-top, n.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law IV iii: So your lover, my poor wench, has deserted you?
at wench, n.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law I ii: A bankruptcy, I warrant; and he is come up to town to whitewash.
at whitewash, v.
[UK] G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law III iv: Woundily, indeed!
at woundy, adv.
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