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Canting Academy 120: This disloyal Husband [...] left the warm bed of his hitherto constant Bed-fellow to go a catterwowling.at caterwaul, v.
Canting Academy 120: This disloyal Husband [...] left the warm bed of his hitherto constant Bed-fellow to go a catterwowling. Canting Academy 163: Citizens wives ... Though they love flesh better than fish, . . . feed ... at Night upon Codshead.at cod, n.3
Canting Academy [title page] The vicious and remarkable lives of Mother Craftsby and Mrs. Wheedle.at craftsby, n.
Canting Academy 148: Not only the Bleeding-Cully, but the Ruff-Cully, the Dark-Cully, the Flogging-Cully, and the Fencing-Gully.at flogging cully, n.
Canting Academy 158: What’s the best remedy for a woman that’s troubled with the falling sickness? – It may be cured by a spell of the only crossing her Leg.at falling sickness, n.
Canting Academy 168: He that is flawed in the Company before the rest.at flaw, v.
Canting Academy 181: The Fountain of Love and delight.at fountain (of love), n.
Canting Academy 33: Cast our Nabs and Cares away, This is beggars Holiday.at nab, n.1
Canting Academy 166: They have whisking water-works for evacuation.at whisking, adj.
‘The Rogues . . . praise of his Stroling Mort’ Canting Academy (1674) 20: Bing awast to Rome-vile then / Oh my dimber wapping Dell.at bing a waste, v.
Canting Academy (2nd edn) 4: Nor will I suffer him [...] to be abused by any strange Abrams, Rufflers, Hookers, Palliards, Swadlars, Irish Toyls, Swig-men, Whip-Jacks, Jark-men, Bawdy-baskets, Dommerars, Clapperdogeons, Patricoes, or Curtalls.at abram, n.
‘A Wenches complaint for . . . her lusty Rogue’ Canting Academy (1674) 17: And like an Abram-cove couldst pray, / Yet pass with gybes well jerk’d away.at abram-man, n.
Canting Academy (2nd edn) 54: Abram Men are otherwise called Tom of Bedlams; they are very strangely and antickly garb’d, with several coloured ribbons or tape in their hat, it may be; instead of a feather, a fox-tail hanging down a long stick with ribbons streaming and the like. Yet for all their seeming madness they have wit enough to steal as they go.at abram-man, n.
Canting Academy (2nd edn).at adam tiler, n.
Canting Academy (2nd edn) n.p.: Q. Who is the Admiral amongst them of the narow Seas? A. He that utters his Stomach in his next fellows Boots.at admiral of the narrow seas (n.) under admiral of..., n.
Canting Academy (2nd edn) 44: Anglers are so called, because they have a Rod or Stick within an Iron hook at the end of it with which they Angle in at Windows [...] where all is Fish to them.at angler, n.
Canting Academy (2nd edn) 61: Autem-Morts are such who are married, having always Children with them, one in the arm and another at the back.at autem mort (n.) under autem, adj.
Canting Academy (2nd edn).at autem, n.
Canting Academy (2nd edn) 32: The Bantlings for a good round sum are sent to us to be nursed.at bantling, n.
Canting Academy (2nd edn) 170: Batner An Oxe.at batner, n.
Canting Academy (2nd edn) 61: Bawdy-baskets are such who walk about with Baskets on their arms, wherein are Pins, Needles, and Laces; and in this number some of you Band-string Women may come in, whop are always taking great pains with their hands in the day, and with their breeches at night.at bawdy-basket (n.) under bawdy, adj.
‘The Thief-Ketcher’s Song’ in Canting Academy (1674) 145: The twelfth is a Beautrap, if a Cull he does meet, / He nips all his Cole.at beau-trap (n.) under beau, n.1
Canting Academy (2nd edn) 54: Abram Men are otherwise called Tom of Bedlams; they are very strangely and antickly garb’d.at Tom of Bedlam, n.
Canting Academy (2nd edn).at lib-beg, n.
Canting Academy (2nd edn).at belly cheat (n.) under belly, n.
Canting Academy (2nd edn).at bene darkmans under bene, adj.
Canting Academy (2nd edn) 169: Benar Better.at bene, adj.
‘Canting Song’ Canting Academy (1674) 22: [as cit. 1612].at beneshiply (adv.) under beneship, adj.
‘Canting Song’ Canting Academy (1674) 22: [as cit. 1612].at beneship, adj.
‘The Beggars Curse’ Canting Academy (1674) 14: He cuts bing to the Ruffmans.at bing, v.1
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