Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the English Writers Previous to the Nineteenth Century which are No Longer in Use, Or are Not Used in the Same Sense. And Words which are Now Used Only in the Provincial Dialects, Volume 2 |
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Page 492
... lady , mistress , goodwife , gammer , or whore ; so they do but buy my book , and pay honestly for it , it's all one to me : a knave's money is as good as an honest man's . Poor Robin , 1707 . GAFFLE , ( 1 ) s . A part of the cross- bow ...
... lady , mistress , goodwife , gammer , or whore ; so they do but buy my book , and pay honestly for it , it's all one to me : a knave's money is as good as an honest man's . Poor Robin , 1707 . GAFFLE , ( 1 ) s . A part of the cross- bow ...
Page 496
... lady , and what gallant Sports with that merchant's wife . B. & Fl . False One , i , 1 . She's impudent , my lord , And was a common gamester to the camp . Shakesp . , All's Well , v , 3 . GAMMALKIN , s . An awkward ram- bling fellow ...
... lady , and what gallant Sports with that merchant's wife . B. & Fl . False One , i , 1 . She's impudent , my lord , And was a common gamester to the camp . Shakesp . , All's Well , v , 3 . GAMMALKIN , s . An awkward ram- bling fellow ...
Page 509
... Lady Beardl . Lord bless us ! I vow he has lov'd a wench better than a psalm- book , coz ; that he has , o ' my word . Beauf . Not unlikely , madam ; but I never heard he kept any . Lady B. Did ye not ? well , that's all one if he did ...
... Lady Beardl . Lord bless us ! I vow he has lov'd a wench better than a psalm- book , coz ; that he has , o ' my word . Beauf . Not unlikely , madam ; but I never heard he kept any . Lady B. Did ye not ? well , that's all one if he did ...
Page 518
... lady - bird . GOD - CAKE , S. A sort of cake sent on New Year's Day by sponsors to their godchildren , a practice peculiar to Coventry . GODCEPT , 8. A godfather . Ho- linshed . GODDARD , 8. ( 1 ) A fool . North . ( 2 ) A sort of ...
... lady - bird . GOD - CAKE , S. A sort of cake sent on New Year's Day by sponsors to their godchildren , a practice peculiar to Coventry . GODCEPT , 8. A godfather . Ho- linshed . GODDARD , 8. ( 1 ) A fool . North . ( 2 ) A sort of ...
Page 522
... lady patron . GOOD - NIGHT , 8. ( 1 ) A sort of bal- lad . Shakesp . ( 2 ) The song made or supposed to be made by a criminal shortly before his execution . GOOD - OUTS , adj . Doing well . Var.d. GOODS , S. Cattle ; produce of the ...
... lady patron . GOOD - NIGHT , 8. ( 1 ) A sort of bal- lad . Shakesp . ( 2 ) The song made or supposed to be made by a criminal shortly before his execution . GOOD - OUTS , adj . Doing well . Var.d. GOODS , S. Cattle ; produce of the ...
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Page 534 - Here Mr. Jackson smiled once more upon the company; and, applying his left thumb to the tip of his nose, worked a visionary coffee-mill with his right hand, thereby performing a very graceful piece of pantomime (then much in vogue,
Page 493 - on Mayday, making a procession to this hill with May gads, as they call them, in their hands : this is a white willow wand, the bark peeled off, tied round with cowslips, a thyrsus of the Bacchanals : at night they have a bonfire and other merriment, which is really a sacrifice or religious festival.
Page 852 - Come, come, man, you must e'en fall to visiting our wives, eating at our tables, drinking tea with our virtuous relations after dinner, dealing cards to 'em, reading plays and gazets to 'em, picking fleas out of their shocks for 'em, collecting receipts, new songs, women, pages, and footmen for 'em.
Page 970 - But in the plays which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing as perfect character, but the two chief persons are most commonly a swearing, drinking, whoring ruffian for a
Page 723 - A game wherein a round box bowle is with a mallet strucke through a high arch of yron (standing at either end of an ally one) which he that can do at the fewest blowes, or at the number agreed on, winnes.
Page 493 - And, come, I will go get a leaf of brass. And with a gad of steel will write these words. And lay it by.
Page 579 - The three-hoop' d pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.
Page 819 - good and hot; let the cream cool a little before you put it into the sack; then stir all together over the coals, till it be as thick as you would have it ; if you take some amber and musk, and grind it small with sugar, and strew it on the top
Page 571 - cloath or a piece of a boulter over the mouth of the bottle, and let so much run through as you will drink at that time, keeping the rest close, for so it will keep both the spirit, odor, and virtue of the wine and spices.
Page 693 - that loves an inch of raw mutton, better than an ell of Friday [or fried] stockfish; and the first letter of my name begins with