One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

also a way of removing unsightly bikini-area hair in one fell stroke

motor retaining nut on an airplane rotor. named so because, if it becomes loose, your only real option is to pray to jesus.

"Without music, life would be a mistake.”― Friedrich Nietzsche
(also: Nietzsche)

(n.) an Australian creature similar to a dog; it rejects the human partnership of its domestic cousin in favor of a life of eating babies

(n.) an obsession of a sexual nature; one of the major drivers of activity on the internet. because of the diverse array of refined perversions that afflict humanity, virtually everything is someone's fetish: a certain body part, a certain article of clothing, a cartoon character, the inversion of traditional gender roles, one's ethnicity and cultural heritage, good dental hygiene, bad dental hygiene, smearing condiments all over yourself, dressing up as an animal and pretending to maul one's partner, actually letting one's partner be mauled by animals, etc.

the word 'fetish' has also been used as a synonym idol (i.e., a physical object of religious reverence), but this usage has mostly been phased out in favor of the aforementioned perversion.

(n.) an insectivorous animal that exists primarily to be the first entry in dictionaries.

someone who is nervous and irritatable

(1787–1851) French artist and photographer, who is credited with the invention of the camera.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: louis daguerre quotes)

(n.) a food that takes the form of an O made of fried sugar-dough. even though such toruses are theoretically without beginning or end, donuts tend to be gone very quickly.

an engine component that increases the engine's impressiveness.

1st meal of the day... Unless you have a pre-breakfast snack!

(also: bacon)

(c. 260 – 232 BC) Powerful Indian King who established large empire by conquest before converting to Buddhism and pursuing a peaceful approach
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: asoka quotes)

how the Earth is miraculously just right to allow the existence of the type of life that exists on Earth.

(n.) source of all life; is wet.

humans who have done a lot of aging, reaching the later stages of the species' life span.

in many cultures, old people are revered for their wealth of experience, just as they are shunned for being weird, liver-spotted grouches who drive you up the wall with their interminable rambling stories

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. In ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph." In modern English the word is improperly used to signify any loose and spontaneous expression of popular homage to the hero of the hour and place.

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"I had an ovation!" the actor man said,
But I thought it uncommonly queer,
That people and critics by him had been led
By the ear.

The Latin lexicon makes his absurd
Assertion as plain as a peg;
In "ovum" we find the true root of the word.
It means egg.
—Dudley Spink

(n.) when you put a lot of snacks on the same plate

(n.) an arthropodal critter that combines features of the spider and the snake. some species are equipped with venom for the incapacitation of prey, for times when creepy legs are insufficient