Jack. - Horntip

Innards. TO Innocent.
1690. B.E. Diet. Cant. Crew. s.v.
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1859. MATsELL, Vocabulum, s.v.
INNARDS, subs. (vulgar).-The
stomach ; the GUTS (q.v.). Also
INWARDS.
1602. SHAKSPEARE, Othello, ii. 1.
The thought whereof Doth like a
poisonous mineral gnaw my INWARDS.
1653. BRomE, Five New Plays, 347.
Bestow steeping thy skin in perfumes to
kill the stink of thy paintings and rotten
INWARDS.
d.1674. MILTON [quoted in JOHNSON,
Ed. 1755]. There sacrificing laid, The
INWARDS and their fat. . . . on the
cleft wood.
1870. WHITE, Words and their
Uses, 387. The simple English word (guts)
for which some New England females
elegantly substitute IN' ARDS, would shock
many.
1871. London Figaro, 17 March.
The usual answer given to William's
enquiry as to what was found in the
shark is, his INNARDS'.
To FILL ONE'S INNARDS, verb.
phr. (common).-To eat.
INNER-MAN, subs. (common).-The
appetite.
1889. Si,orting Life, 30 Jan.
Having satisfied the INNER-MAN.
INNINGS, subs. (colloquial).-A turn ;
a spell; a chance : from the game
of cricket
1836. DICKENS, Pickwick PaiSers,
(ed. 1857) p. 103. The friends of
Horatio Fizkin Esq., having had their
INNINGS, a little choleric pink-faced man
stood forward to propose another fit and
proper person to represent the electors
of Eatanswill in Parliament.
1848. THACKERAY, Book of Snobs,
xx. The opposition wag is furious that
he cannot get an INNINGS.
1883. JAMES PAYN, Naturalness,
in Longman's Mag., May, p. 67. And
others consent to listen to him upon
the understanding that they are presently
o have their INNINGS.
To HAVE A GOOD INNINGS,
verb. phr. (colloquial).-To be fortunate,
especially in money matters.
To HAVE A LONG INNINGS,
verb. phr. (colloquial). To die
in the fulness of years.
INNOCENT, subs. (old).-!. A
simpleton ; an idiot.
1598. SHAKESPEARE, All's well,
etc. iv. 3. A dumb INNOCENT that could
not say him nay.
1605. JONSON, CHAPMAN, &c., East-
ward Hoe (DoDsLEY, Old Plays, iv.
209). Again, if you be a cuckold, and
know it not, you are an INNOCENT; if
you know it and endure it, a true martyr.
1609. JoNsoN, Efiiccene, iii. 4. Do
you think you had married some INNOCENT
out of the hospital, that would stand
with her hands thus, and a playse mouth,
and look upon you.
1634. BEAUMONT & FLETCHER, Two
Noble Kinsmen, iv. 1. She answered
me So far from what she was, so
childishly, So sillily, as if she were a
fool, an INNOCENT.
1639. BEAUMONT & FLETCHER, Wit
without Money, ii. There be three
kinds of fools, mark this note, gentlemen,
Mark it, and understand it. . . . An
INNOCENT, a knave fool, a fool politic.
1785. GROSE, Vulg. Tongue, S.V.
INNOCENTS, one of the INNOCENTS, a weak
or simple person, man or woman.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
2. (American).-A corpse ; a
STIFF (q.v.).
1859. MATSELL, Vocabulum, s.v.
3. (American). A convict.
1859. MAT SELL, Vocabulum, s.v.
THE MURDER (SLAUGHTER, or
MASSACRE) OF THE INNOCENTS,
subs. phr. (parliamentary). The
abandonment, towards the end
of a session, of measures whether
introduced by the Government
or by private members, when they
would have no chance of passing.