cocktail (1803)

[James Knight]

Not the drink, but a sense I don't see covered in the OED (in the
version I have access to at any rate):

The Times, Tuesday, Mar 18, 1788; pg. 4; Issue 1023; col B
Monday, March 17 / Lost, a silver watch, maker's name, Dashwood, No.
3797... the name C. Davis engraved on the Cocktail; Enamel'd Plate,
Gold Hands, ... It was left in the Privy at Lord Haweksborough's Office ...

Hardly seems like a nonce, but I haven't yet found another usage like
it from that period.

-jk (lurker's corner)

At 12:27 PM 1/23/2006, you wrote:
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>I just found cocktail 1803.  I found it in _Early American Newspapers,
>series I_ from _The Farmer's Cabinet_ April 28, 1803, p [2]
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>The word is used twice:
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>"11. Drank a glass of coctail--excellent for the head ...  Call'd at the
>Doct's. found Burnham--he looked very wise--drank another glass of
>cocktail."
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>So, I guess they're a few years off in Las Vegas.  Maybe more, if someone
>has older evidence.
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>Regards,
>David
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>barnhart at highlands.com
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