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[UK] Dryden Don Sebastian 10: There’s th’ Amorous airy spark, Antonio; / The wittiest Woman’s toy in Portugal.
at airy, adj.1
[UK] Dryden Don Sebastian 82: An annointed halter take you all.
at anointed, adj.
[UK] Dryden Don Sebastian 17: Hold my dear Thrum-cap: I obey thee cheerfully.
at thrum-cap, n.
[UK] Dryden Don Sebastian 82: I am disgrac’d for ever: O thou art a venomous Cockatrice.
at cockatrice, n.
[UK] Dryden Don Sebastian 16: Marry come up Sir! Virtues quoth ah!
at marry come up!, excl.
[UK] Dryden Don Sebastian 8: His reverence bought of me the flower of all the Market; these – these are but Dog’s Meat to ’em.
at dog’s meat, n.
[UK] Dryden Don Sebastian 39: He smells of his Country garlike! fugh, how he stinks of Spain.
at faugh!, excl.
[UK] Dryden Don Sebastian 65: You, like a fresh-water Soldier, stood guarding the Pass before: if you miss’d the Enemy, you may thank your own dulness.
at freshwater soldier (n.) under Freshwater, adj.
[UK] Dryden Don Sebastian 82: I long to be handselling his hide, before we bring him to my Master.
at hide, n.
[UK] Dryden Don Sebastian 77: Prithee what was the meaning of that violent hot Hug?
at hot, adj.
[UK] Dryden Don Sebastian 79: I have a trick left to put thee past thy squeeking: I have giv’n thee the quinzey; that ungracious Tongue shall Preach no more false Doctrin. [Ibid.] 96: If he be obstinate, put a civil Question to him upon the Rack, and he squeaks I warrant him.
at squeak, v.
[UK] Dryden Don Sebastian 85: What stuff he talks!
at stuff, n.
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