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Ely’s Hawk and Buzzard choose

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[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 3 July 3/2: All the tag-rag and bob-tail attacked [sic] to the skeleton Hawk and Buzzard.
at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 3 July 2/1: I saw one of Crazy John’s barney printers setting up a song with my name [...] as its author. This is done no doubt to decive [sic] the Public.
at barney, adj.1
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 3 July 1/2: Seated by a table refreshing themslves with the ‘oh be joyful’.
at o-be-joyful, n.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 4/2: [He] had no sooner tipp’d his beaver, than these imps of Satan all exclaimed [etc].
at beaver, n.1
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 3 July 3/3: Give the queer little fellow a bumper.
at bumper, n.2
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 2/2: A dubb’d knight in whiskers and dickey at her side.
at dicky, n.1
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 4/2: ‘By Gob! here comes the Colonel, we’ll pump him!’.
at gob!, excl.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 4/2: He is in the habit of leaving his grog bills ‘unpaid’.
at grog, n.1
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 4/4: [He spends] whole day in the North American Hotel bar room with a company of hell-racks like himself.
at hell-raker (n.) under hell, n.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 3/1: A certain young man, late a knight of the needle.
at ...the needle under knight of the..., n.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 4/2: A certain knotty-headed knight of the cue.
at ...the cue under knight of the..., n.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 1/3: Please inform that knight of the Thimble, Mr. P.T. [etc].
at ...the thimble under knight of the..., n.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 3 July 1/3: If he is not more careful how he is caught in the company of certain ladies of pleasure [etc].
at lady of pleasure (n.) under lady, n.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 3 July 3/1: [He] has given leg bail to his creditors.
at leg bail (n.) under leg, n.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 3 July 3/2: Mother W. whose premises front so conveniently on Broadway [...] for the accomodation of married men.
at mother, n.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 3 July 3/1: Crazy John, a chap whose noddle has been out of order for a long time.
at noddle, n.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 3/3: A certain female [...] parading [...] Broadway and picking up flats and escorting them to her oozing ken to lay off in bliss until next morning.
at oozing ken (n.) under ooze, v.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 3 July 4/3: There is a certain cock-eyed pin, who is in the habit of lounging on the Battery [...] and who has more tongue than brains.
at pin, n.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 3/3: A certain female by the name of Mrs D. alias pin cushion [...] parading [...] Broadway and picking up flats.
at pin-cushion (n.) under pin, n.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 3/3: [He] had better [...] not visit a certain lady up town who sells pop, or he may get pop’d.
at pop, n.1
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 3/3: [He] had better [...] not visit a certain lady up town who sells pop, or he may get pop’d.
at pop, v.1
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 4/2: ‘By Gob! here comes the Colonel, we’ll pump him!’.
at pump, v.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 3 July 3/1: [P]ersuading an innocent young man to visit a house [...] for the purpose of pumping W.N.M.’s Caroline.
at pump, v.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 1/1: If he could detect the old punk in any act of infidelity, he would then leave her.
at punk, n.1
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 3 July 2/3: What gentleman would wish to disgrace himself by being put on a par with a common puppy?
at puppy, n.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 2/2: If they do not desist from quizzing respectable females [...] they will be put in the Hawk and Buzzard.
at quiz, v.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 3 July 4/1: A young woman [...] commonly called the Manhattan Island ranger.
at ranger, n.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 4/2: In the habit of going to Hoboken [...] for the purpose of getting rummy and insulting respectable people.
at rummy, adj.2
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 2/1: The young squirt [...] had better take care how he abuses the young ladies’ characters.
at squirt, n.
[US] Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) 26 June 1/2: He [...] is sticking up, in Broadway, to a certain fair lady.
at stick up, v.2
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