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Anne | August 19th, 2008 | No Comments »Clipped money: they have been round the tower with it. CANT.
-From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Clipped money: they have been round the tower with it. CANT.
-From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
To take one’s oath. I will cap downright; I will swear home. CANT.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
A luncheon, or snap before dinner: so called from its damping, or allaying, the appetite; eating and drinking, being, as the proverb wisely observes, apt to take away the appetite.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Stairs.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.