n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

n. A long glove covering a part of the arm. Worn in New Jersey. But "mousquetaire" is a mighty poor way to spell muskeeter.

(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) something one gives up in order to appease a temperamental deity or wife

(v.) to make something into a sacrifice by sacrificing it. ya dig?

Shaming people just because they are dictators. It is illegal in many 3rd world countries.

(also: most common shaming practices)
(also: necessary shaming practices)

a supposed king of england who supposedly ruled around the time the roman empire had withdrawn from the country in the late fifth century. supposedly.

known for being conceived by 'magical' rape-by-fraud, hanging out with wizards, pulling a sword out of a big rock, conquering a number of european places, being cuckolded by a frenchman, trying to drown hundreds of children, and finally getting killed by the one child he didn't manage to drown

although he probably did not actually exist, he is much better known than a majority of real english historical figures

Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

a nation invented in 1871
(also: Prussia)

(742 – 814) United Europe to form the Carolingian Empire. First western Emperor since the fall of Rome.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: charlemagne quotes)

a candy consisting of a sugar-capsule with a decorative almond in the middle

Fictional Language made for lonely people
used in Star Trek Saga.

(n.) that wire chicken you sometimes see perched on top of buildings, pointing in the direction of the wind.

also called a weathercock. under no circumstances should you compress both of these words together to create a vaneycock.

The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

(482 – 565) Emperor of Eastern Roman Empire
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: justinian i quotes)

(n.) the ideal tool, for few problems in life cannot be fixed with a little smashing

the destination

Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(n.) an evasive and ambiguous phrase used in lieu of a direct and to-the-point phrase, for the sake of tact

The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.
So plain the advantages of machination

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It constitutes a moral obligation,
And honest wolves who think upon't with loathing
Feel bound to don the sheep's deceptive clothing.
So prospers still the diplomatic art,
And Satan bows, with hand upon his heart.
—R.S.K.