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Reading Mercury 24 Sept. 4/1: Ode on a Pipe of Tobacco [...] Then let me smoke in health and peace / [...] /Then calmly, when the fates shall please, / Lay down my clay.at clay, n.
Reading Mercury 24 Sept. 4/1: Ode on a Pipe of Tobacco [...] Then let me smoke in health and peace / [...] /Then calmly, when the fates shall please, / Lay down my clay. Reading Mercury 24 Sept. 4/1: Ode on a Pipe of Tobacco [...] At length when he’s arrived at home [...] /Takes supper and a cup of slum, / And nine corns more.at nine corns (n.) under nine, adj.
Reading Mercury 29 June 4/1: We hear that a hempen collar was given to Holland, a Minister of the law.at hempen collar (n.) under hempen, adj.
Reading Mercury 17 June 3/3: A gentleman of the turf [...] picked up a Dulcinea [...] when drinking too freely, she had the dexterity to ease his pocket of [...] 30l.at ease, v.1
Reading Mercury 17 July 3/2: D—n my eyes and limbs but I’ll be the death of her, for she is a Papist bitch.at my eye(s)!, excl.
Reading Mercury 3 May 4/2: O! my dear, I understand you (taking out his purse) here are corianders that will purchase hides enough.at coriander (seed), n.
Reading Mercury 3 May 4/2: What! a bribe —out of my stall or by gingo I’ll stick my awl to the head in your —. I am Sir Bilberry Diddle, Knight and Baronet of Diddle Hall.at diddle, v.2
Reading Mercury 3 May 4/2: What! a bribe —out of my stall or by gingo I’ll stick my awl to the head in your —.at jingo!, excl.
Reading Mercury 3 May 4/2: A glass of as good maxamus as ever tipp’d over an exciseman’s tongue.at max, n.
Reading Mercury 12 Apr. 4/4: Till he at length was turned off, / And Will Pond got his place.at turn off, v.1
Reading Mercury 8 Dec. 4/2: They sent a number of constables, police officers, etc. who came into the room [...] singing, ‘God save great Jolter-heads’.at jolterhead, n.
Reading Mercury 11 July 2/3: Your stomach aches? [...] Take a good dose of right Nantz.at right, adj.
Reading Mercury 6 Apr. 4/5: A pair of out-and-out Kersey Kicksies, got up slap, with pearl buttons.at out-and-out, adj.
Reading Mercury 23 Feb. 4/5: Never believe a great broad-faced, beetle-browed Spoon, when he tels you [...] that the happiest days of a man’s life are spent at school.at beetle-brain (n.) under beetle, n.1
Reading Mercury 6 Apr. 4/5: Having renewed the lease of my little crib, and at great expense enlarged my shop.at crib, n.1
Reading Mercury 6 Apr. 4/5: A pair of stout Kersey Trotter Cases, carved to fit any pins, however dickey formed.at dicky, adj.1
Reading Mercury 6 Apr. 4/5: A pair of tough cotton cord Kicksies, built quiet or fierce: Eight-and-twenty peg.at fierce, adv.
Reading Mercury 6 Apr. 4/5: I intend to lay it on my customers pretty thick, or in other words, to tip it to them pretty stiff in my charges.at lay it on, v.
Reading Mercury 6 Apr. 4/5: A pair of out-and-out Kersey Kicksies, got up slap, with pearl buttons.at kicksies, n.
Reading Mercury 6 Apr. 4/5: A pair of cloth Mud Pipes, with unbleached pearl buttons [...] a canary and a bull.at mud pipes (n.) under mud, n.
Reading Mercury 6 Apr. 4/5: A pair of tough cotton cord Kicksies, built quiet or fierce: Eight-and-twenty peg.at peg, n.3
Reading Mercury 6 Apr. 4/5: A pair of out-and-out Kersey Kicksies, got up slap, with pearl buttons.at slap, adv.
Reading Mercury 6 Apr. 4/5: Not over nice to taking a bit of stiff, if the barring is right as a trivet.at stiff, n.1
Reading Mercury 6 Apr. 4/5: A pair of stout Kersey Trotter Cases, carved to fit any pins, however dickey formed.at trotter-box (n.) under trotter, n.
Reading Mercury 28 Dec. 3/5: Will it find me in ‘prime twig’ or in tatters?at twig, n.1
Reading Mercury 30 Aug. 3/4: A ‘lady of the pave,’ named Hildyard, was fined on Monday [...] for assaulting a poor decrepit old man.at nymph of the pavé, n.
Reading Mercury 30 Aug. 3/4: The ‘thimble-rig gentry,’ ‘smashers,’ and pick-pockets were likewise numerous.at thimble-rig, n.
Reading Mercury 30 Aug. 3/4: The ‘thimble-rig gentry,’ ‘smashers,’ and pick-pockets were likewise numerous.at smasher, n.1
Reading Mercury 20 May 3/4: We hope they will come to the mark well-fledged, as they will not only have the opportunity of laying out their spare metal, but also a fair chance of losing it.at metal, n.
Reading Mercury 20 May 3/4: Foot Race [...] Winter is backed by some Londoners who [...] were so completely ‘mucked out’ by the Windsorites.at muck, v.1
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