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[US] Daily Pennant (St Louis) 14 July n.p.: David Johnson acknowledged the corn and said that he was drunk.
at acknowledge the corn, v.
[US] Daily Pennant (St. Louis), May 14. n.p.: Tim had that morning taken a little dust of grog, that is to say an eye-opener, and a sleep-disturber, and a gum-tickler, and a gallbreaker, and an anti-fogmatic, and it may be two or three small horns more, which no gentleman need to be ashamed on.
at antifogmatic, n.
[US] Daily Pennant (St. Louis) 14 May n.p.: Tim had that morning taken a little dust of grog, that is to say an eye-opener, and a sleep-disturber, and a gum-tickler, and a gallbreaker, and an anti-fogmatic, and it may be two or three small horns more.
at eye-opener, n.1
[US] Daily Pennant (St. Louis) 9 Sept. n.p.: A jury case too, with lawyers for trimmings, / And a plaintiff who looked so forlorn; / For his battered arm he bore in a sling, / But I spec it was all in a horn.
at in a horn under horn, n.2
[US] Daily Pennant (St. Louis) 14 May n.p.: Tim gives him a sockdologer and two side-winders, and leaves him for dead on the spot.
at sidewinder (n.) under side, adj.
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