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Harper’s Weekly 3 Apr. n.p.: Boodle is a flash term used by counterfeiters.at boodle, n.1
Harper’s Weekly 3 Apr. n.p.: Boodle is a flash term used by counterfeiters. Harper’s Weekly 5 Aug. 490/2: Arrangements were made for the Saengerfest, which will be celebrated at Philadelphia in 1867 [DA].at -fest, sfx
Harper’s Weekly 25 May n.p.: You thick-headed lunk [R].at lunk, n.
Harper’s Weekly 24 Sept. 646: [He] takes up a little of the treacle-like opium which is brought to him in a small clam shell, upon a long steel needle, or yen hanck, and holding it above the flame of the lamp, watches it bubble and swell to eight or ten times its original size. In doing so it loses its inky hue, becomes of a bright golden brown color, and gives off a creamy odor, much admired by old smokers [...] This process is known as ‘cooking’ the opium.at cook, v.1
Harper’s Weekly 24 Sept. 646: The other articles necessary to complete a smoker’s outfit are: a box of buffalo horn (hop toy) to hold the opium [...] a box for the ash, or yen tshi; and two trays, the one smaller than the other, on which all these articles rest.at hop toy (n.) under hop, n.3
Harper’s Weekly 24 Sept. 646: In order to make my investigation of the matter thorough and truthful, I made myself acquainted with some fifty male and female American smokers in this city, became a daily visitor, staying for hours at the principal smoking-house or ‘joint’.at joint, n.
Harper’s Weekly 24 Sept. 646: The other articles necessary to complete a smoker’s outfit are: a box of buffalo horn (hop toy) to hold the opium [...] a box for the ash, or yen tshi; and two trays, the one smaller than the other, on which all these articles rest.at yen-shee, n.
Harper’s Weekly 24 Sept. 646: Having brought it to a proper consistence, the operator, with a rapid, twirling motion of the fingers, rolls the mass, still upon the yen hanck, upon the broad surface of the bowl, submitting it occasionally to the flame, catching it now and then upon the edge of the bowl and pulling it out into strings, in order to cook it through more thoroughly. This is called chying the mass.at tchi, v.
Harper’s Weekly 24 Sept. 646: The smoker settles himself comfortably upon his side, takes up a little of the treacle-like opium which is brought to him in a small clam shell, upon a long steel needle, or yen hauck.at yen hock (n.) under yen, n.1
Harper’s Weekly 24 Sept. 646: The opium pipe is called by the Chinese the yen tsiang, or opium pistol.at yen tsiang (n.) under yen, n.1
Harper’s Weekly 16 Oct. 817: The lower ‘sporting’ elements in the poorer quarter of New York call them ‘Guineas’ and ‘Dagoes’.at guinea, n.1
Harper’s Weekly 7 Sept. n.p.: He might just as well have been John Smith of Podunk Centre [DA].at podunk, n.
Harper’s Weekly 26 Jan. 19: ‘I’ll lay you out in lavender’ (I’ll scold you severely) [HDAS].at lay out in lavender (v.) under lay out, v.
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