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The Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry choose

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[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry III i: Of all jacks in office, a jack in the box, / Or a jack for a jill, if you’d catch ’em.
at jack in a box, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry III ii: Blood and turf! somebody’s picked my pocket.
at blood and ’ounds!, excl.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry I i: You be a funny chap, Mr. Logic; aye bless you, we ofter get bit.
at bite, v.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry III i: Bother the ‘charleys’.
at bother, v.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry I i: Tuesday, got clean’d at rough et noir, / And done quite brown.
at do brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry I i: Yes, lawyers cabbage as well as tailors.
at cabbage, v.1
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry I ii: Dang my buttons, but you be up to every thing.
at dang, v.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry I ii: Egad! if it didn’t savour of conceit, I should consider myself a handsome fellow.
at egad!, excl.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry I i: Clean’d out again, I came away, / Quite undismay’d, though out of feather – / At night I bolted to the play.
at in high feather under feather, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry III v: Here’s a fine heap of ’em coming for an answer.
at heap, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry frontispiece: Three Acts of Wit and Whim, replete with High Goes, Prime Chaunts, and Out-and-out Sprees.
at high-go (n.) under high, adj.1
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry I ii: We laugh at [...] the tricks of the mountebank’s jack-pudding – because we despise the folly, and pity the fool.
at jack pudding (n.) under jack, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry III i: A charley’s the jack set to watch ’em.
at jack, n.1
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry I ii: nickem: Drink! why, dang it, you’re always drunk. snaggs: O, fie! a little mellow, but never maudling.
at mellow, adj.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry III i: There was one of us muzzy.
at muzzy, adj.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry II v: We’ll have as pretty a set-out of any of the quality folks.
at set-out, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry I ii: Dang it, you be a queer one.
at queer, adj.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry III Viii: I and my husband, and da’ter, Sir, are quite agreeable to look over your rantipole doings, for it was plain to see you vas a little rum-ti-tum or so.
at rantipole, n.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry III i: A Watchman gets into some strange scrapes, on my life, – / T’other night I took up the night-constable’s wife: / There was one of us muzzy, which needn’t be sung – / On that head I’d best keep my teeth ’tween my tongue.
at sing, v.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry I ii: You won’t mind standing £40?
at stand, v.2
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry III i: A Watchman gets into some strange scrapes, on my life, – / T’other night I took up the night-constables’s wife: / There was one of us muzzy, which needn’t be sung.
at take up, v.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry II i: Then what made you figure in here, my tight one?
at tight, adj.
[UK] C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry II i: Now then; we’re tiled [...] Snug.
at tiled, adj.
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