Anecdotes, Ancient and Modern Games, Conjuring, Fortune Telling and Card-Sharping, Skill and Sleight of Hand, Gambling and Calculation, Cartomancy and Cheating, Old Games and Gaming-Houses, Card Revels and Blind Hookey, Picquet and Vingt-et-un, Whist and Cribbage, Old-Fashioned Tricks.
SLANG DICTIONARY; or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and “Fast” Expressions of High and Low Society; many with their Etymology, and a few with their History traced. With curious Illustrations. A New Dictionary of Colloquial English. Pp. 328, in 8vo, price 6s. 6d.
See Two upon Ten, in the Dictionary, p. 264.
Egyptian Hieroglyphic verb, to be drunk, showing the amputation of a man’s leg. See under Breaky Leg (viz. Strong Drink) in the Dictionary, p. 61.
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