a ma

• the girl of the period

• alma mater

• to hole

• have a debauch

• to fling about, to flounce, to thrash about

• to stock up

• to back out, to balk, to sugar

• solitary, to be left alone

• to move off, to sheer off

• to give a good account of oneself, to prove one's identity

• magic lantern

• to dip

• to be out in one's reckoning, to miscalculate

• to wear well

• unto this day, up to this day

• to imbibe

• to apply oneself to sg

• to huddle oneself up, to huddle up, to hunch, to pull up

• to bedeck oneself, to clobber out, to clobber up

• to work up

• to posh up oneself, to preen oneself, to smarten oneself up, to spruce oneself up