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[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander IV i: They are sure faire Gamesters use to pay the boxe well: especially at In, and In.
at in-and-out, n.1
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander IV i: They are sure faire Gamesters use to pay the boxe well: especially at In, and In, (the Innes of Court Butlers would have had but a bad Christmas of it else) and what care they so they can purchase plush, though their wives pay ith’ hole for it.
at box, n.1
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander I i: [If] The gentle noose had knit up him, and a hundred of his country men, our land would not be pestred so with butterboxes.
at butterbox (n.) under butter, n.1
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander IV i: I have made triall of him, and finde him of a very good disposition, come chicke you shall have him.
at chick, n.1
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander I i: Doe you not keepe a pimping roaring varlet, noted as much as pig, have you not constant she soldiers in your citadell, none such, had Hollands Leager, Lambeth Marsh is held a Nunry to your Colledge.
at college, n.
[UK] Glapthorne Hollander II i: How kind they [i.e. married whores] will be to a gentleman that comes to deale for their commodities, they will use him and it were their owne husbands.
at commodity, n.
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander IV i: We will disagree about manners, Ile be as clownish as an Upland Bore, foutra, tell a Dutchman of manners?
at foutre!, excl.
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander V i: No matter Lovring thou art a Gent.
at gent, n.1
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander IV i: There are knights in towne who know their Ladies to be Hens oth’ game.
at hen, n.
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander IV i: There are knights in towne who know their Ladies to be Hens oth’ game, and live by tredding.
at hen of the game (n.) under hen, n.
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander III i: Under penalty of being carried up Holborne in a cart.
at walk (backwards) up Holborn Hill (v.) under Holborn Hill, n.
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander IV i: A woman has ever a hole open to receive a man’s tale.
at hole, n.1
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander I i: Is it not in plaine termes, a house of ease.
at house of easement (n.) under house, n.1
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander I i: As any woman else is for my money, onely I must confesse, I have an itch, a tickling thought to her before the rest of common prostitutes.
at itch, n.
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander V i: You shall dance at my wedding, and be drunke too, my Joe, you shall.
at joe, n.1
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander I i: Sir, I am sent from Mr. Mixum, your Apothecary.
at mixum, n.
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander II i: If I should obtain the Neapolitan beneach [i.e. ‘bone-ache’], a creeke ith’ backe, or so from her [...] I should be forc’d to swim ith tub for it, or be hang’d by the armes, and smoak’d like a bloat herring.
at Neapolitan, adj.
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander IV i: Now the curse of a tedious virginity light on ye, you will not be tupped by a Dutch Ram.
at ram, n.1
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander IV i: Sir Pithagoras we doe create you skinker [...] you shall dible in liquor of account.
at skinker, n.
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander I i: The three Squirrels in the towne.
at squirrel, n.
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander IV i: Now the curse of a tedious virginity light on ye, you will not be tupped by a Dutch Ram.
at tup, v.
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander I i: Was it not I That first advis’d you to set up a Schoole For Female vaulters, and within pretence Of giving Physicke, give them an over-plus To their disease.
at vaulter, n.
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander V i: Yonder is a man would ravish me whether I would or no, [...] I thinke he has puld out the longest naked weapon, O there he is.
at weapon, n.1
[UK] H. Glapthorne Hollander IV i: Come hither Captaine, sing the hymne [...] but wet your pipes first, Ganimed, they’l squeake the better.
at wet one’s whistle (v.) under wet, v.
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