To Kidnap

,—to recruit soldiers for his majesty’s service by delusion, and by inveigling them into houses of ill-fame, where, should the poor wretches so trepanned make resistance, or refuse to receive the proffered shillig of the nominal captain who attends there, they are sure to be plundered and beaten, if not killed.

Entry taken from Political Dictionary, edited by Charles Pigott from prison and printed in 1795.

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Justice
To Kidnap
King
King
King (infallibility of the.)
King (disaffection to the)
To kiss (the breech of persons in power)
Knight
Knowing
Labour