- Listening in and hearing that Adam’s partner’s declining - Listening in? First lady’s in decline - The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and
other places where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly
listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is
indictable at common law.
- Minded a mess of old rubbish - A dunghill. - An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place;
especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other
refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric
tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places.
See Kitchen middens.