Meaning of thats | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“As such, they do not have⟳ the ontological weight of "Being" and "Not-being," but serve⟳ simply as an explanatory vocabulary necessary to describe⟳ our world of thises and thats.”

“Why thats the way to choake a gibing ſpirrit, / Whoſe influence⟳ is begot of that looſe grace, / Which ſhallow laughing hearers giue to fooles, […]”

“No eye hath ſeene ſuch skarcrovves. Ile not march⟳ vvith them through Couentry vvith them, thats flat: […]”

“He is made like⟳ a tilting staffe; and lookes / For all the world like⟳ an ore-rosted pigge: / A great Tobacco taker too, thats flat.”

“Euery man can ſay Bee to a Battledore, and vvrite in prayſe of Vertue, and the ſeuen Liberall Sciences, threſh corne out of the full ſheaues, and fetch⟳ vvater out of the Thames; but out of drie ſtubble to make⟳ an after harueſt, and a plentifull croppe vvithout ſovving, and vvring iuice out of a flint, thats Pierce a Gods name⟳, and the right tricke of a workman.”

“When yond fame ſtarre thats weaſtward from the pole […]”

“At your pleaſure thats rare; then rovvlie, povvlie, our vviues ſhall lye at your commaund: […]”

“[The game of dice and ball] is near of kin, in the nature of the vvord to that game of Cock-all, vvhich boyes uſe amongſt us, vvhich Cock-all, is as much vvin and take⟳ all, as a Cock does vvho victorying, has not onely the praiſe of all, but vvins all thats laied on the match⟳ by the Abettors againſt him.”

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