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The Art of Wheedling choose

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[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 189: Though she hath broken her leg, she is sound enough for a Drawer, newly out of his time, who, having credit for wine, his house is furnished with the money that did set his wife’s broken leg.
at break a leg, v.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling n.p.: Have a care of a quarrel, and bringing the Alsatians about your ears.
at Alsatian (n.) under Alsatia, n.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 311: Now and then some Cracking Sempstress, or Free Trader [...] have the ill hap to be Confined within this stony Band box.
at bandbox, n.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 167: He knows how to single her out [...] and give her her bellyful of toying.
at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 200: Rooks of all sorts, as Huffs, Setters, Biters.
at biter, n.1
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 297: Throwing them into the Bog-house.
at boghouse, n.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 111: By these Artifices he assuredly helps her [...] and is well satisfied for dealing with such rotten Commodities.
at commodity, n.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 254: He [a shop-keeper] takes special care of not letting Coneyes burrough in his Shop-book, knowing ’twill be hard ferretting them out again.
at cony, n.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 204: He [...] cries, Damme, Madam, were you but sensible of the Passion I have for you.
at damme!, excl.
[Ire] Head The Art of Wheedling 202: He swears dam him.
at damn, v.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 109: He dives into their pockets, and sends them home pluckt.
at dive, v.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 147: Would it not be ridiculous instead of ammorous courtship to entertain a young Lady with School-boy questions, as what is Latin for a Dripping-pan.
at dripping pan, n.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 206: This felllow is the fag-end or Pug of a Conjurer.
at fag end, n.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 57: He carries perpetually about him a Catalogue of all the Whores [...] ranking them into three Columes apart; and thus distinguished: the Flamer, Frisker, and Wast-coateer.
at flamer, n.1
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 150: An impertinent person, eagerly discoursing the conduct of some amorous Female Conquests, as the Wife of Mr. Fribble.
at fribble, n.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 57: He carries perpetually about him a Catalogue of all the Whores [...] ranking them into three Columes apart; and thus distinguished: the Flamer, Frisker, and Wast-coateer.
at frisk, v.1
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 300: They used to sometimes fuddle together.
at fuddle, v.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 197: He strains himself to the utmost, to be accounted a notable Head-piece, and scatters his wits as Beggars do Lice.
at head-piece, n.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 189: She shows her willingness to be undrest, and cares not how soon, so she may be assured her pleasure is not greater than her profit; to that end she leaves her Honey-pot sometimes uncovered.
at honeypot, n.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 181: These generous Guests not coming to the house as they were wont, makes the poor Vintner run horn-mad, swearing for the loss of his money.
at horn-mad, adj.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 250: Our Saint that hath all the Tricks of a Tavern or Tipling-house.
at tippling-house, n.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 323: These men, who have laid up their Estates in Lavender, that they may the more freely follow their Recreation.
at lay (up) in lavender, v.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 297: That they may not poison their jessimy-Barbers.
at jessamy, n.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 280: He had variety of knights of the Post at his command.
at knight of the post, n.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 205: When he intends to go on the Pad, then Inns some time before are the chief places whither he resorts, to get information.
at on the pad under pad, n.1
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 282: [They] such as padd on the Road, though the Robbery be not twenty shillings, shall be hanged.
at pad, v.1
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 171: Being an excellent Tongue-pad.
at tongue pad, n.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 177: First he pitches on that Tavern in which he never drank before.
at pitch on (v.) under pitch, v.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 109: He dives into their pockets, and sends them home pluckt.
at pluck, v.
[Ire] Head Art of Wheedling 202: He will venture his money among those of his own profession, and then cheat that cheat can; these of late are called Rats [...] the winner then according to the term of Art, says, he hath bit of such a Rats tail.
at rat, n.1
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