TO MAKE INDENTURES, verb. phr. (old).—To stagger with drink.

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  1622.  ROWLANDS, Good Newes and Bad Newes, p. 43. [Hunterian Club’s Reprint, 1874].

        A Fellow that had beene excessive trading,
In taking liquor in beyond his lading,
Of Claret, and the Spanish Malligo,
That’s legs vnable were vpright to goe;
But sometime wall, and sometime kennell taking,
And as the phrase is vs’d, INDENTURES MAKING.

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