n. A superior degree of bodily disgust. The corresponding mental condition is called "all broke up.
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, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors—to dislodge the worms.
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n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit.
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n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
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v.t. To declare with suspicious gravity when one is not compelled to wholly discredit himself with an oath.
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n. Addicted to being a nuisance. The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
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n. In morals, a sentiment; in medicine, a disease. To a young woman an affection of the heart means love; to a doctor it may mean fatty degeneration. The difference is one of nomenclature merely.
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n. The most unpleasant ticks afflicting the race. Worse than woodticks.
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n. The smallest current coin.
"The man was in such deep distress,"
Said Tom, "that I could do no less
Than give him good advice." Said Jim:
"If less could have been done for him
I know you well enough, my son,
To know that's what you would have done."
—Jebel Jocordy
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"The man was in such deep distress,"
Said Tom, "that I could do no less
Than give him good advice." Said Jim:
"If less could have been done for him
I know you well enough, my son,
To know that's what you would have done."
—Jebel Jocordy
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n. A comely youth, remembered chiefly for his unkindness to Venus. He has been unjustly censured by those who forget that in his time goddesses were only ten cents a bunch.
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n. Gentle reproof, as with a meat-axe. Friendly warning.
Consigned, by way of admonition,
His soul forever to perdition.
—Judibras
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Consigned, by way of admonition,
His soul forever to perdition.
—Judibras
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n. That part of a war-ship which does the talking while the figure-head does the thinking.
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n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
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