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The Commissary choose

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[UK] Foote The Commissary 23: Are you not a pretty fellow, to blow up and ruin my reputation.
at blow up, v.1
[UK] Foote The Commissary 45: I will return her bye-blow in the body of a double base-viol.
at by-blow, n.
[UK] Foote Commissary in Works (1799) II 25: You called me a buck, and moreover said that my horns were exalted.
at buck, n.1
[UK] Foote The Commissary 19: Doctor Catgut, the meagre musician; that sick monkey-face maker of crochets [...] a fidler!
at catgut, n.1
[UK] Foote The Commissary 19: That eternal trotter after all the little draggle-tail’d girls of town.
at draggle-tailed, adj.
[UK] Foote The Commissary 19: That eternal trotter after all the little draggle-tail’d girls of town.
at girl about town (n.) under girl, n.1
[UK] Foote The Commissary 19: March and be hang’d to you — you sooty-fac’d —.
at hang, v.1
[UK] Foote Commissary in Works (1799) II 21: This piece of intelligence will make a hot house.
at hot, adj.
[UK] Foote Commissary in Works (1799) II 42: A gentleman by birth and by breeding, none of your little whipper snapper Jacks.
at jack, n.1
[UK] Foote The Commissary 8: What, the old liquorish dowager from Devonshire Square?
at liquored (up), adj.
[UK] Foote The Commissary 6: mrs. mech.: Give him the sixpence, then. [...] coachm.: It will be to your health, mistress; it shall melt at the Meuse, before I go home.
at melt, v.
[UK] Foote The Commissary 47: There liv’d Miss Cicely Mite, the only daughter of old Mite the cheesemonger.
at mite, n.
[UK] Foote The Commissary 22: I can’t think what the devil makes your quality so fond of the mounsiers.
at mounseer, n.
[UK] Foote Commissary in Works (1799) II 43: Once he is noos’d, let him struggle as he will, the cord will, be drawn only the tighter.
at noose, v.
[UK] Foote The Commissary 16: Odso! a qualification for a canon of Strasbourg.
at odso! (excl.) under ods, n.
[UK] Foote The Commissary 34: la fleur.: Le Maitre pour donner d’eloquence. z. fun.: What does the puppy say [...] you know I can’t parler vous.
at parleyvoo, v.
[UK] Foote The Commissary 6: Will he marry the party?
at party, n.1
[UK] Foote The Commissary 9: A whole cargo of husbands [...] of all nations, complexions, ages, tempers, and fizes.
at phiz, n.1
[UK] Foote Commissary in Works (1799) II 16: A body might as soon procure a hare or a partridge as a pretty.
at pretty, n.
[UK] Foote The Commissary 20: This old brother of ours tho’ is smoky and shrewd.
at smoky, adj.1
[UK] Foote The Commissary 63: Fye upon you! you have thrown the old gentlewoman into the sterics.
at sterics, n.
[UK] Foote The Commissary 5: I hope you’ll tip me the tester to drink.
at tester, n.1
[UK] Foote Commissary in Works (1799) II 39: I have sent to Dr Tickletext, and the business [i.e. a wedding] will be done in the parlour below.
at tickle-text (n.) under tickle, v.
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