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Lady’s Trial choose

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[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial IV ii: We can drink till all look blue.
at till all is blue, phr.
[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial II i: ’Sfoot, Don, you talk too big, you make her tremble; Do you not see’t imaginarily?
at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial III i: Wench is your trull, your blouze, your dowdie.
at blowse, n.
[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial III i: A bots on empty purses!
at bots, n.1
[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial II i: Money is trash, and ladies are et caeteras.
at et-caetera, n.
[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial V i: A villanous poor banditti [...] Can man a quean, and cant, and pick a pocket, Pad for a cloak, or hat, in the dark.
at cant, v.1
[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial II i: Gulls, or Moguls, Tag, rag, or other, hogen-mogen, vanden, Skip-jacks, or chouses.
at chouse, n.
[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial III i: You are dull clod-pated lumps of mire and garbish.
at clod-pated, adj.
[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial II i: ‘My duck, or doe,’ said I.
at doe, n.1
[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial V i: A villanous poor banditti [...] Can man a quean, and cant, and pick a pocket, Pad for a cloak, or hat, in the dark.
at man, v.
[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial V i: A villanous poor banditti [...] Can man a quean, and cant, and pick a pocket, Pad for a cloak, or hat, in the dark.
at pad, v.1
[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial V i: A proper joining!
at proper, adj.
[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial III i: Pish man! the best, though call ’em ladies, madams [...] Will prove themselves but flirts and tirliry-pufkins.
at tirliry-pufkin, n.
[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial V i: Ruffian, out of my doors! thou comest to rob me.
at ruffian, n.1
[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial II i: ’Sfoot, Don, you talk too big.
at ’sfoot!, excl.
[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial III i: Wench is your trull, your blouze, your dowdie.
at trull, n.
[UK] Ford Lady’s Trial II i: Twit me with Dutch! Hang Dutch and French.
at twit, v.
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