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[UK] J. Earle Micro-Cosmographie No. 24: A Player: Your Innes of Court men were vndone but for him, hee is their chief guest [...] and the sole busines that makes them Afternoones men. [...] he is bound to make his friends friend drunk at his charge.
at afternoon man, n.
[UK] J. Earle Micro-Cosmographie No. 38: A Sergeant or Catch-pole is one of Gods Iudgements; and which our Roarers doe onely conceiue terrible [...] for hee is at most but an Arrester, and Hell a Dungeon.
at catchpole, n.
[UK] J. Earle ‘A Vulgar-spirited Man’ Micro-Cosmographie No. 39: That thinke the Prison and want a Iudgement for some sin, and neuer like well hereafter of a Iayle-bird.
at gaolbird, n.
[UK] J. Earle Micro-Cosmographie F5: A Plaine Country Fellow [...] Hee [...] has some thrifty Hobnaile Prouerbs to clout his discourse.
at hobnailed, adj.
[UK] J. Earle Micro-Cosmographie No. 2: A Young raw Precher: He takes on against the Pope without mercy, and has a iest still in lauender for Bellarmine.
at in lavender under lay (up) in lavender, v.
[UK] J. Earle Micro-Cosmographie D2: The Tauerne [...] After a long sitting [...] the Iordans like swelling rivers ouerflow.
at jordan, n.
[UK] J. Earle Micro-Cosmographie No. 25: A Downe-right scholler: His body is not set upon nice pinnes, to bee turning and flexible [...] but his scrape is homely and his nod worse.
at pin, n.
[UK] J. Earle Micro-Cosmographie No. 15: A Sharke is one whome all other meanes haue fayl’d, and hee now liues of himselfe.
at shark, n.
[UK] J. Earle Micro-Cosmographie (5th) No. 50: A Profane Man. One that nicknames Clergymen with all the terms of reproach, as Rat, Blackcoat, and the like.
at black coat (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] J. Earle Micro-Cosmographie (1811) 162: A Meer Gull Citizen is one that [...] does nothing without his chuck, that is his wife, with whom he is billing still.
at chuck, n.1
[UK] J. Earle Micro-Cosmographie (5th) No. 50: A Profane Man. One that nicknames Clergymen with all the terms of reproach, as Rat, Blackcoat, and the like.
at rat, n.1
[UK] J. Earle Microcosmographie No. 75: An ordinary honest Fellow [...] do’s it faire and above boord without legerdemaine, and neither sharkes for a cup or a reckoning.
at shark, v.
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