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covers
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Book
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imitators
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Cynic
s
This
The
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That
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The
Cynic
s
t
Other
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merely
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though
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added
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distinction
of
silliness
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them
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brought
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word
cynic
into
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book
bearing
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was
discredited
in
advance
of
publication
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too
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of
the
enterprising
humorists
of
the
country
had
helped
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to
such
parts
of
the
work
as
served
their
needs
and
many
of
its
definitions
anecdotes
phrases
and
so
forth
had
become
more
or
less
current
in
popular
speech
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explanation
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pride
of
priority
in
trifles
but
in
simple
denial
of
possible
charges
of
plagiarism
which
is
no
trifle
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merely
resuming
his
own
the
author
hopes
to
be
held
guiltless
by
those
to
whom
the
work
is
addressed
enlightened
souls
who
prefer
dry
wines
to
sweet
sense
to
sentiment
wit
to
humor
and
clean
English
to
slang
A
conspicuous
and
it
is
hoped
not
unpleasant
feature
of
the
book
is
its
abundant
illustrative
quotations
from
eminent
poets
chief
of
whom
is
that
learned
and
ingenius
cleric
Father
Gassalasca
Jape
S
J
whose
lines
bear
his
initials
To
Father
Jape
s
kindly
encouragement
and
assistance
the
author
of
the
prose
text
is
greatly
indebted
A
B
A
ABASEMENT
n
A
decent
and
customary
mental
attitude
in
the
presence
of
wealth
of
power
Peculiarly
appropriate
in
an
employee
when
addressing
an
employer
ABATIS
n
Rubbish
in
front
of
a
fort
to
prevent
the
rubbish
outside
from
molesting
the
rubbish
inside
ABDICATION
n
An
act
whereby
a
sovereign
attests
his
sense
of
the
high
temperature
of
the
throne
Poor
Isabella
s
Dead
whose
abdication
Set
all
tongues
wagging
in
the
Spanish
nation
For
that
performance
twere
unfair
to
scold
her
She
wisely
left
a
throne
too
hot
to
hold
her
To
History
she
ll
be
no
royal
riddle
Merely
a
plain
parched
pea
that
jumped
the
griddle
G
J
ABDOMEN
n
The
temple
of
the
god
Stomach
in
whose
worship
with
sacrificial
rights
all
true
men
engage
From
women
this
ancient
faith
commands
but
a
stammering
assent
They
sometimes
minister
at
the
altar
in
a
half
hearted
and
ineffective
way
but
true
reverence
for
the
one
deity
that
men
really
adore
they
know
not
If
woman
had
a
free
hand
in
the
world
s
marketing
the
race
would
become
graminivorous
ABILITY
n
The
natural
equipment
to
accomplish
some
small
part
of
the
meaner
ambitions
distinguishing
able
men
from
dead
ones
In
the
last
analysis
ability
is
commonly
found
to
consist
mainly
in
a
high
degree
of
solemnity
Perhaps
however
this
impressive
quality
is
rightly
appraised
it
is
no
easy
task
to
be
solemn
ABNORMAL
adj
Not
conforming
to
standard
In
matters
of
thought
and
conduct
to
be
independent
is
to
be
abnormal
to
be
abnormal
is
to
be
detested
Wherefore
the
lexicographer
adviseth
a
striving
toward
the
straiter
sic
resemblance
of
the
Average
Man
than
he
hath
to
himself
Whoso
attaineth
thereto
shall
have
peace
the
prospect
of
death
and
the
hope
of
Hell
ABORIGINIES
n
Persons
of
little
worth
found
cumbering
the
soil
of
a
newly
discovered
country
They
soon
cease
to
cumber
they
fertilize
ABRACADABRA
By
Abracadabra
we
signify
An
infinite
number
of
things
Tis
the
answer
to
What
and
How
and
Why
And
Whence
and
Whither
a
word
whereby
The
Truth
with
the
comfort
it
brings
Is
open
to
all
who
grope
in
night
Crying
for
Wisdom
s
holy
light
Whether
the
word
is
a
verb
or
a
noun
Is
knowledge
beyond
my
reach
I
only
know
that
tis
handed
down
From
sage
to
sage
From
age
to
age
An
immortal
part
of
speech
Of
an
ancient
man
the
tale
is
told
That
he
lived
to
be
ten
centuries
old
In
a
cave
on
a
mountain
side
True
he
finally
died
The
fame
of
his
wisdom
filled
the
land
For
his
head
was
bald
and
you
ll
understand
His
beard
was
long
and
white
And
his
eyes
uncommonly
bright
Philosophers
gathered
from
far
and
near
To
sit
at
his
feet
and
hear
and
hear
Though
he
never
was
heard
To
utter
a
word
But
Abracadabra
abracadab
Abracada
abracad
Abraca
abrac
abra
ab
Twas
all
he
had
Twas
all
they
wanted
to
hear
and
each
Made
copious
notes
of
the
mystical
speech
Which
they
published
next
A
trickle
of
text
In
the
meadow
of
commentary
Mighty
big
books
were
these
In
a
number
as
leaves
of
trees
In
learning
remarkably
very
He
s
dead
As
I
said
And
the
books
of
the
sages
have
perished
But
his
wisdom
is
sacredly
cherished
In
Abracadabra
it
solemnly
rings
Like
an
ancient
bell
that
forever
swings
O
I
love
to
hear
That
word
make
clear
Humanity
s
General
Sense
of
Things
Jamrach
Holobom
ABRIDGE
v
t
To
shorten
When
in
the
course
of
human
events
it
becomes
necessary
for
people
to
abridge
their
king
a
decent
respect
for
the
opinions
of
mankind
requires
that
they
should
declare
the
causes
which
impel
them
to
the
separation
Oliver
Cromwell
ABRUPT
adj
Sudden
without
ceremony
like
the
arrival
of
a
cannon
shot
and
the
departure
of
the
soldier
whose
interests
are
most
affected
by
it
Dr
Samuel
Johnson
beautifully
said
of
another
author
s
ideas
that
they
were
concatenated
without
abruption
ABSCOND
v
i
To
move
in
a
mysterious
way
commonly
with
the
property
of
another
Spring
beckons
All
things
to
the
call
respond
The
trees
are
leaving
and
cashiers
abscond
Phela
Orm
ABSENT
adj
Peculiarly
exposed
to
the
tooth
of
detraction
vilifed
hopelessly
in
the
wrong
superseded
in
the
consideration
and
affection
of
another
To
men
a
man
is
but
a
mind
Who
cares
What
face
he
carries
or
what
form
he
wears
But
woman
s
body
is
the
woman
O
Stay
thou
my
sweetheart
and
do
never
go
But
heed
the
warning
words
the
sage
hath
said
A
woman
absent
is
a
woman
dead
Jogo
Tyree
ABSENTEE
n
A
person
with
an
income
who
has
had
the
forethought
to
remove
himself
from
the
sphere
of
exaction
ABSOLUTE
adj
Independent
irresponsible
An
absolute
monarchy
is
one
in
which
the
sovereign
does
as
he
pleases
so
long
as
he
pleases
the
assassins
Not
many
absolute
monarchies
are
left
most
of
them
having
been
replaced
by
limited
monarchies
where
the
sovereign
s
power
for
evil
and
for
good
is
greatly
curtailed
and
by
republics
which
are
governed
by
chance
ABSTAINER
n
A
weak
person
who
yields
to
the
temptation
of
denying
himself
a
pleasure
A
total
abstainer
is
one
who
abstains
from
everything
but
abstention
and
especially
from
inactivity
in
the
affairs
of
others
Said
a
man
to
a
crapulent
youth
I
thought
You
a
total
abstainer
my
son
So
I
am
so
I
am
said
the
scapegrace
caught
But
not
sir
a
bigoted
one
G
J
ABSURDITY
n
A
statement
or
belief
manifestly
inconsistent
with
one
s
own
opinion
ACADEME
n
An
ancient
school
where
morality
and
philosophy
were
taught
ACADEMY
n
from
ACADEME
A
modern
school
where
football
is
taught
ACCIDENT
n
An
inevitable
occurrence
due
to
the
action
of
immutable
natural
laws
ACCOMPLICE
n
One
associated
with
another
in
a
crime
having
guilty
knowledge
and
complicity
as
an
attorney
who
defends
a
criminal
knowing
him
guilty
This
view
of
the
attorney
s
position
in
the
matter
has
not
hitherto
commanded
the
assent
of
attorneys
no
one
having
offered
them
a
fee
for
assenting
ACCORD
n
Harmony
ACCORDION
n
An
instrument
in
harmony
with
the
sentiments
of
an
assassin
ACCOUNTABILITY
n
The
mother
of
caution
My
accountability
bear
in
mind
Said
the
Grand
Vizier
Yes
yes
Said
the
Shah
I
do
tis
the
only
kind
Of
ability
you
possess
Joram
Tate
ACCUSE
v
t
To
affirm
another
s
guilt
or
unworth
most
commonly
as
a
justification
of
ourselves
for
having
wronged
him
ACEPHALOUS
adj
In
the
surprising
condition
of
the
Crusader
who
absently
pulled
at
his
forelock
some
hours
after
a
Saracen
scimitar
had
unconsciously
to
him
passed
through
his
neck
as
related
by
de
Joinville
ACHIEVEMENT
n
The
death
of
endeavor
and
the
birth
of
disgust
ACKNOWLEDGE
v
t
To
confess
Acknowledgement
of
one
another
s
faults
is
the
highest
duty
imposed
by
our
love
of
truth
ACQUAINTANCE
n
A
person
whom
we
know
well
enough
to
borrow
from
but
not
well
enough
to
lend
to
A
degree
of
friendship
called
slight
when
its
object
is
poor
or
obscure
and
intimate
when
he
is
rich
or
famous
ACTUALLY
adv
Perhaps
possibly
ADAGE
n
Boned
wisdom
for
weak
teeth
ADAMANT
n
A
mineral
frequently
found
beneath
a
corset
Soluble
in
solicitate
of
gold
ADDER
n
A
species
of
snake
So
called
from
its
habit
of
adding
funeral
outlays
to
the
other
expenses
of
living
ADHERENT
n
A
follower
who
has
not
yet
obtained
all
that
he
expects
to
get
ADMINISTRATION
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
ADMIRAL
n
That
part
of
a
war
ship
which
does
the
talking
while
the
figure
head
does
the
thinking
ADMIRATION
n
Our
polite
recognition
of
another
s
resemblance
to
ourselves
ADMONITION
n
Gentle
reproof
as
with
a
meat
axe
Friendly
warning
Consigned
by
way
of
admonition
His
soul
forever
to
perdition
Judibras
ADORE
v
t
To
venerate
expectantly
ADVICE
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
AFFIANCED
pp
Fitted
with
an
ankle
ring
for
the
ball
and
chain
AFFLICTION
n
An
acclimatizing
process
preparing
the
soul
for
another
and
bitter
world
AFRICAN
n
A
nigger
that
votes
our
way
AGE
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
AGITATOR
n
A
statesman
who
shakes
the
fruit
trees
of
his
neighbors
to
dislodge
the
worms
AIM
n
The
task
we
set
our
wishes
to
Cheer
up
Have
you
no
aim
in
life
She
tenderly
inquired
An
aim
Well
no
I
haven
t
wife
The
fact
is
I
have
fired
G
J
AIR
n
A
nutritious
substance
supplied
by
a
bountiful
Providence
for
the
fattening
of
the
poor
ALDERMAN
n
An
ingenious
criminal
who
covers
his
secret
thieving
with
a
pretence
of
open
marauding
ALIEN
n
An
American
sovereign
in
his
probationary
state
ALLAH
n
The
Mahometan
Supreme
Being
as
distinguished
from
the
Christian
Jewish
and
so
forth
Allah
s
good
laws
I
faithfully
have
kept
And
ever
for
the
sins
of
man
have
wept
And
sometimes
kneeling
in
the
temple
I
Have
reverently
crossed
my
hands
and
slept
Junker
Barlow
ALLEGIANCE
n
This
thing
Allegiance
as
I
suppose
Is
a
ring
fitted
in
the
subject
s
nose
Whereby
that
organ
is
kept
rightly
pointed
To
smell
the
sweetness
of
the
Lord
s
anointed
G
J
ALLIANCE
n
In
international
politics
the
union
of
two
thieves
who
have
their
hands
so
deeply
inserted
in
each
other
s
pockets
that
they
cannot
separately
plunder
a
third
ALLIGATOR
n
The
crocodile
of
America
superior
in
every
detail
to
the
crocodile
of
the
effete
monarchies
of
the
Old
World
Herodotus
says
the
Indus
is
with
one
exception
the
only
river
that
produces
crocodiles
but
they
appear
to
have
gone
West
and
grown
up
with
the
other
rivers
From
the
notches
on
his
back
the
alligator
is
called
a
sawrian
ALONE
adj
In
bad
company
In
contact
lo
the
flint
and
steel
By
spark
and
flame
the
thought
reveal
That
he
the
metal
she
the
stone
Had
cherished
secretly
alone
Booley
Fito
ALTAR
n
The
place
whereupon
the
priest
formerly
raveled
out
the
small
intestine
of
the
sacrificial
victim
for
purposes
of
divination
and
cooked
its
flesh
for
the
gods
The
word
is
now
seldom
used
except
with
reference
to
the
sacrifice
of
their
liberty
and
peace
by
a
male
and
a
female
tool
They
stood
before
the
altar
and
supplied
The
fire
themselves
in
which
their
fat
was
fried
In
vain
the
sacrifice
no
god
will
claim
An
offering
burnt
with
an
unholy
flame
M
P
Nopput
AMBIDEXTROUS
adj
Able
to
pick
with
equal
skill
a
right
hand
pocket
or
a
left
AMBITION
n
An
overmastering
desire
to
be
vilified
by
enemies
while
living
and
made
ridiculous
by
friends
when
dead
AMNESTY
n
The
state
s
magnanimity
to
those
offenders
whom
it
would
be
too
expensive
to
punish
ANOINT
v
t
To
grease
a
king
or
other
great
functionary
already
sufficiently
slippery
As
sovereigns
are
anointed
by
the
priesthood
So
pigs
to
lead
the
populace
are
greased
good
Judibras
ANTIPATHY
n
The
sentiment
inspired
by
one
s
friend
s
friend
APHORISM
n
Predigested
wisdom
The
flabby
wine
skin
of
his
brain
Yields
to
some
pathologic
strain
And
voids
from
its
unstored
abysm
The
driblet
of
an
aphorism
The
Mad
Philosopher
APOLOGIZE
v
i
To
lay
the
foundation
for
a
future
offence
APOSTATE
n
A
leech
who
having
penetrated
the
shell
of
a
turtle
only
to
find
that
the
creature
has
long
been
dead
deems
it
expedient
to
form
a
new
attachment
to
a
fresh
turtle
APOTHECARY
n
The
physician
s
accomplice
undertaker
s
benefactor
and
grave
worm
s
provider
When
Jove
sent
blessings
to
all
men
that
are
And
Mercury
conveyed
them
in
a
jar
That
friend
of
tricksters
introduced
by
stealth
Disease
for
the
apothecary
s
health
Whose
gratitude
impelled
him
to
proclaim
My
deadliest
drug
shall
bear
my
patron
s
name
G
J
APPEAL
v
t
In
law
to
put
the
dice
into
the
box
for
another
throw
APPETITE
n
An
instinct
thoughtfully
implanted
by
Providence
as
a
solution
to
the
labor
question
APPLAUSE
n
The
echo
of
a
platitude
APRIL
FOOL
n
The
March
fool
with
another
month
added
to
his
folly
ARCHBISHOP
n
An
ecclesiastical
dignitary
one
point
holier
than
a
bishop
If
I
were
a
jolly
archbishop
On
Fridays
I
d
eat
all
the
fish
up
Salmon
and
flounders
and
smelts
On
other
days
everything
else
Jodo
Rem
ARCHITECT
n
One
who
drafts
a
plan
of
your
house
and
plans
a
draft
of
your
money
ARDOR
n
The
quality
that
distinguishes
love
without
knowledge
ARENA
n
In
politics
an
imaginary
rat
pit
in
which
the
statesman
wrestles
with
his
record
ARISTOCRACY
n
Government
by
the
best
men
In
this
sense
the
word
is
obsolete
so
is
that
kind
of
government
Fellows
that
wear
downy
hats
and
clean
shirts
guilty
of
education
and
suspected
of
bank
accounts
ARMOR
n
The
kind
of
clothing
worn
by
a
man
whose
tailor
is
a
blacksmith
ARRAYED
pp
Drawn
up
and
given
an
orderly
disposition
as
a
rioter
hanged
to
a
lamppost
ARREST
v
t
Formally
to
detain
one
accused
of
unusualness
God
made
the
world
in
six
days
and
was
arrested
on
the
seventh
The
Unauthorized
Version
ARSENIC
n
A
kind
of
cosmetic
greatly
affected
by
the
ladies
whom
it
greatly
affects
in
turn
Eat
arsenic
Yes
all
you
get
Consenting
he
did
speak
up
Tis
better
you
should
eat
it
pet
Than
put
it
in
my
teacup
Joel
Huck
ART
n
This
word
has
no
definition
Its
origin
is
related
as
follows
by
the
ingenious
Father
Gassalasca
Jape
S
J
One
day
a
wag
what
would
the
wretch
be
at
Shifted
a
letter
of
the
cipher
RAT
And
said
it
was
a
god
s
name
Straight
arose
Fantastic
priests
and
postulants
with
shows
And
mysteries
and
mummeries
and
hymns
And
disputations
dire
that
lamed
their
limbs
To
serve
his
temple
and
maintain
the
fires
Expound
the
law
manipulate
the
wires
Amazed
the
populace
that
rites
attend
Believe
whate
er
they
cannot
comprehend
And
inly
edified
to
learn
that
two
Half
hairs
joined
so
and
so
as
Art
can
do
Have
sweeter
values
and
a
grace
more
fit
Than
Nature
s
hairs
that
never
have
been
split
Bring
cates
and
wines
for
sacrificial
feasts
And
sell
their
garments
to
support
the
priests
ARTLESSNESS
n
A
certain
engaging
quality
to
which
women
attain
by
long
study
and
severe
practice
upon
the
admiring
male
who
is
pleased
to
fancy
it
resembles
the
candid
simplicity
of
his
young
ASPERSE
v
t
Maliciously
to
ascribe
to
another
vicious
actions
which
one
has
not
had
the
temptation
and
opportunity
to
commit
ASS
n
A
public
singer
with
a
good
voice
but
no
ear
In
Virginia
City
Nevada
he
is
called
the
Washoe
Canary
in
Dakota
the
Senator
and
everywhere
the
Donkey
The
animal
is
widely
and
variously
celebrated
in
the
literature
art
and
religion
of
every
age
and
country
no
other
so
engages
and
fires
the
human
imagination
as
this
noble
vertebrate
Indeed
it
is
doubted
by
some
Ramasilus
lib
II
De
Clem
and
C
Stantatus
De
Temperamente
if
it
is
not
a
god
and
as
such
we
know
it
was
worshiped
by
the
Etruscans
and
if
we
may
believe
Macrobious
by
the
Cupasians
also
Of
the
only
two
animals
admitted
into
the
Mahometan
Paradise
along
with
the
souls
of
men
the
ass
that
carried
Balaam
is
one
the
dog
of
the
Seven
Sleepers
the
other
This
is
no
small
distinction
From
what
has
been
written
about
this
beast
might
be
compiled
a
library
of
great
splendor
and
magnitude
rivalling
that
of
the
Shakespearean
cult
and
that
which
clusters
about
the
Bible
It
may
be
said
generally
that
all
literature
is
more
or
less
Asinine
Hail
holy
Ass
the
quiring
angels
sing
Priest
of
Unreason
and
of
Discords
King
Great
co
Creator
let
Thy
glory
shine
God
made
all
else
the
Mule
the
Mule
is
thine
G
J
AUCTIONEER
n
The
man
who
proclaims
with
a
hammer
that
he
has
picked
a
pocket
with
his
tongue
AUSTRALIA
n
A
country
lying
in
the
South
Sea
whose
industrial
and
commercial
development
has
been
unspeakably
retarded
by
an
unfortunate
dispute
among
geographers
as
to
whether
it
is
a
continent
or
an
island
AVERNUS
n
The
lake
by
which
the
ancients
entered
the
infernal
regions
The
fact
that
access
to
the
infernal
regions
was
obtained
by
a
lake
is
believed
by
the
learned
Marcus
Ansello
Scrutator
to
have
suggested
the
Christian
rite
of
baptism
by
immersion
This
however
has
been
shown
by
Lactantius
to
be
an
error
Facilis
descensus
Averni
The
poet
remarks
and
the
sense
Of
it
is
that
when
down
hill
I
turn
I
Will
get
more
of
punches
than
pence
Jehal
Dai
Lupe
B
BAAL
n
An
old
deity
formerly
much
worshiped
under
various
names
As
Baal
he
was
popular
with
the
Phoenicians
as
Belus
or
Bel
he
had
the
honor
to
be
served
by
the
priest
Berosus
who
wrote
the
famous
account
of
the
Deluge
as
Babel
he
had
a
tower
partly
erected
to
his
glory
on
the
Plain
of
Shinar
From
Babel
comes
our
English
word
babble
Under
whatever
name
worshiped
Baal
is
the
Sun
god
As
Beelzebub
he
is
the
god
of
flies
which
are
begotten
of
the
sun
s
rays
on
the
stagnant
water
In
Physicia
Baal
is
still
worshiped
as
Bolus
and
as
Belly
he
is
adored
and
served
with
abundant
sacrifice
by
the
priests
of
Guttledom
BABE
or
BABY
n
A
misshapen
creature
of
no
particular
age
sex
or
condition
chiefly
remarkable
for
the
violence
of
the
sympathies
and
antipathies
it
excites
in
others
itself
without
sentiment
or
emotion
There
have
been
famous
babes
for
example
little
Moses
from
whose
adventure
in
the
bulrushes
the
Egyptian
hierophants
of
seven
centuries
before
doubtless
derived
their
idle
tale
of
the
child
Osiris
being
preserved
on
a
floating
lotus
leaf
Ere
babes
were
invented
The
girls
were
contended
Now
man
is
tormented
Until
to
buy
babes
he
has
squandered
His
money
And
so
I
have
pondered
This
thing
and
thought
may
be
T
were
better
that
Baby
The
First
had
been
eagled
or
condored
Ro
Amil
BACCHUS
n
A
convenient
deity
invented
by
the
ancients
as
an
excuse
for
getting
drunk
Is
public
worship
then
a
sin
That
for
devotions
paid
to
Bacchus
The
lictors
dare
to
run
us
in
And
resolutely
thump
and
whack
us
Jorace
BACK
n
That
part
of
your
friend
which
it
is
your
privilege
to
contemplate
in
your
adversity
BACKBITE
v
t
To
speak
of
a
man
as
you
find
him
when
he
can
t
find
you
BAIT
n
A
preparation
that
renders
the
hook
more
palatable
The
best
kind
is
beauty
BAPTISM
n
A
sacred
rite
of
such
efficacy
that
he
who
finds
himself
in
heaven
without
having
undergone
it
will
be
unhappy
forever
It
is
performed
with
water
in
two
ways
by
immersion
or
plunging
and
by
aspersion
or
sprinkling
But
whether
the
plan
of
immersion
Is
better
than
simple
aspersion
Let
those
immersed
And
those
aspersed
Decide
by
the
Authorized
Version
And
by
matching
their
agues
tertian
G
J
BAROMETER
n
An
ingenious
instrument
which
indicates
what
kind
of
weather
we
are
having
BARRACK
n
A
house
in
which
soldiers
enjoy
a
portion
of
that
of
which
it
is
their
business
to
deprive
others
BASILISK
n
The
cockatrice
A
sort
of
serpent
hatched
form
the
egg
of
a
cock
The
basilisk
had
a
bad
eye
and
its
glance
was
fatal
Many
infidels
deny
this
creature
s
existence
but
Semprello
Aurator
saw
and
handled
one
that
had
been
blinded
by
lightning
as
a
punishment
for
having
fatally
gazed
on
a
lady
of
rank
whom
Jupiter
loved
Juno
afterward
restored
the
reptile
s
sight
and
hid
it
in
a
cave
Nothing
is
so
well
attested
by
the
ancients
as
the
existence
of
the
basilisk
but
the
cocks
have
stopped
laying
BASTINADO
n
The
act
of
walking
on
wood
without
exertion
BATH
n
A
kind
of
mystic
ceremony
substituted
for
religious
worship
with
what
spiritual
efficacy
has
not
been
determined
The
man
who
taketh
a
steam
bath
He
loseth
all
the
skin
he
hath
And
for
he
s
boiled
a
brilliant
red
Thinketh
to
cleanliness
he
s
wed
Forgetting
that
his
lungs
he
s
soiling
With
dirty
vapors
of
the
boiling
Richard
Gwow
BATTLE
n
A
method
of
untying
with
the
teeth
of
a
political
knot
that
would
not
yield
to
the
tongue
BEARD
n
The
hair
that
is
commonly
cut
off
by
those
who
justly
execrate
the
absurd
Chinese
custom
of
shaving
the
head
BEAUTY
n
The
power
by
which
a
woman
charms
a
lover
and
terrifies
a
husband
BEFRIEND
v
t
To
make
an
ingrate
BEG
v
To
ask
for
something
with
an
earnestness
proportioned
to
the
belief
that
it
will
not
be
given
Who
is
that
father
A
mendicant
child
Haggard
morose
and
unaffable
wild
See
how
he
glares
through
the
bars
of
his
cell
With
Citizen
Mendicant
all
is
not
well
Why
did
they
put
him
there
father
Because
Obeying
his
belly
he
struck
at
the
laws
His
belly
Oh
well
he
was
starving
my
boy
A
state
in
which
doubtless
there
s
little
of
joy
No
bite
had
he
eaten
for
days
and
his
cry
Was
Bread
ever
Bread
What
s
the
matter
with
pie
With
little
to
wear
he
had
nothing
to
sell
To
beg
was
unlawful
improper
as
well
Why
didn
t
he
work
He
would
even
have
done
that
But
men
said
Get
out
and
the
State
remarked
Scat
I
mention
these
incidents
merely
to
show
That
the
vengeance
he
took
was
uncommonly
low
Revenge
at
the
best
is
the
act
of
a
Siou
But
for
trifles
Pray
what
did
bad
Mendicant
do
Stole
two
loaves
of
bread
to
replenish
his
lack
And
tuck
out
the
belly
that
clung
to
his
back
Is
that
all
father
dear
There
s
little
to
tell
They
sent
him
to
jail
and
they
ll
send
him
to
well
The
company
s
better
than
here
we
can
boast
And
there
s
Bread
for
the
needy
dear
father
Um
toast
Atka
Mip
BEGGAR
n
One
who
has
relied
on
the
assistance
of
his
friends
BEHAVIOR
n
Conduct
as
determined
not
by
principle
but
by
breeding
The
word
seems
to
be
somewhat
loosely
used
in
Dr
Jamrach
Holobom
s
translation
of
the
following
lines
from
the
Dies
Irae
Recordare
Jesu
pie
Quod
sum
causa
tuae
viae
Ne
me
perdas
illa
die
Pray
remember
sacred
Savior
Whose
the
thoughtless
hand
that
gave
your
Death
blow
Pardon
such
behavior
BELLADONNA
n
In
Italian
a
beautiful
lady
in
English
a
deadly
poison
A
striking
example
of
the
essential
identity
of
the
two
tongues
BENEDICTINES
n
An
order
of
monks
otherwise
known
as
black
friars
She
thought
it
a
crow
but
it
turn
out
to
be
A
monk
of
St
Benedict
croaking
a
text
Here
s
one
of
an
order
of
cooks
said
she
Black
friars
in
this
world
fried
black
in
the
next
The
Devil
on
Earth
London
BENEFACTOR
n
One
who
makes
heavy
purchases
of
ingratitude
without
however
materially
affecting
the
price
which
is
still
within
the
means
of
all
BERENICE
S
HAIR
n
A
constellation
Coma
Berenices
named
in
honor
of
one
who
sacrificed
her
hair
to
save
her
husband
Her
locks
an
ancient
lady
gave
Her
loving
husband
s
life
to
save
And
men
they
honored
so
the
dame
Upon
some
stars
bestowed
her
name
But
to
our
modern
married
fair
Who
d
give
their
lords
to
save
their
hair
No
stellar
recognition
s
given
There
are
not
stars
enough
in
heaven
G
J
BIGAMY
n
A
mistake
in
taste
for
which
the
wisdom
of
the
future
will
adjudge
a
punishment
called
trigamy
BIGOT
n
One
who
is
obstinately
and
zealously
attached
to
an
opinion
that
you
do
not
entertain
BILLINGSGATE
n
The
invective
of
an
opponent
BIRTH
n
The
first
and
direst
of
all
disasters
As
to
the
nature
of
it
there
appears
to
be
no
uniformity
Castor
and
Pollux
were
born
from
the
egg
Pallas
came
out
of
a
skull
Galatea
was
once
a
block
of
stone
Peresilis
who
wrote
in
the
tenth
century
avers
that
he
grew
up
out
of
the
ground
where
a
priest
had
spilled
holy
water
It
is
known
that
Arimaxus
was
derived
from
a
hole
in
the
earth
made
by
a
stroke
of
lightning
Leucomedon
was
the
son
of
a
cavern
in
Mount
Aetna
and
I
have
myself
seen
a
man
come
out
of
a
wine
cellar
BLACKGUARD
n
A
man
whose
qualities
prepared
for
display
like
a
box
of
berries
in
a
market
the
fine
ones
on
top
have
been
opened
on
the
wrong
side
An
inverted
gentleman
BLANK
VERSE
n
Unrhymed
iambic
pentameters
the
most
difficult
kind
of
English
verse
to
write
acceptably
a
kind
therefore
much
affected
by
those
who
cannot
acceptably
write
any
kind
BODY
SNATCHER
n
A
robber
of
grave
worms
One
who
supplies
the
young
physicians
with
that
with
which
the
old
physicians
have
supplied
the
undertaker
The
hyena
One
night
a
doctor
said
last
fall
I
and
my
comrades
four
in
all
When
visiting
a
graveyard
stood
Within
the
shadow
of
a
wall
While
waiting
for
the
moon
to
sink
We
saw
a
wild
hyena
slink
About
a
new
made
grave
and
then
Begin
to
excavate
its
brink
Shocked
by
the
horrid
act
we
made
A
sally
from
our
ambuscade
And
falling
on
the
unholy
beast
Dispatched
him
with
a
pick
and
spade
Bettel
K
Jhones
BONDSMAN
n
A
fool
who
having
property
of
his
own
undertakes
to
become
responsible
for
that
entrusted
to
another
to
a
third
Philippe
of
Orleans
wishing
to
appoint
one
of
his
favorites
a
dissolute
nobleman
to
a
high
office
asked
him
what
security
he
would
be
able
to
give
I
need
no
bondsmen
he
replied
for
I
can
give
you
my
word
of
honor
And
pray
what
may
be
the
value
of
that
inquired
the
amused
Regent
Monsieur
it
is
worth
its
weight
in
gold
BORE
n
A
person
who
talks
when
you
wish
him
to
listen
BOTANY
n
The
science
of
vegetables
those
that
are
not
good
to
eat
as
well
as
those
that
are
It
deals
largely
with
their
flowers
which
are
commonly
badly
designed
inartistic
in
color
and
ill
smelling
BOTTLE
NOSED
adj
Having
a
nose
created
in
the
image
of
its
maker
BOUNDARY
n
In
political
geography
an
imaginary
line
between
two
nations
separating
the
imaginary
rights
of
one
from
the
imaginary
rights
of
the
other
BOUNTY
n
The
liberality
of
one
who
has
much
in
permitting
one
who
has
nothing
to
get
all
that
he
can
A
single
swallow
it
is
said
devours
ten
millions
of
insects
every
year
The
supplying
of
these
insects
I
take
to
be
a
signal
instance
of
the
Creator
s
bounty
in
providing
for
the
lives
of
His
creatures
Henry
Ward
Beecher
BRAHMA
n
He
who
created
the
Hindoos
who
are
preserved
by
Vishnu
and
destroyed
by
Siva
a
rather
neater
division
of
labor
than
is
found
among
the
deities
of
some
other
nations
The
Abracadabranese
for
example
are
created
by
Sin
maintained
by
Theft
and
destroyed
by
Folly
The
priests
of
Brahma
like
those
of
Abracadabranese
are
holy
and
learned
men
who
are
never
naughty
O
Brahma
thou
rare
old
Divinity
First
Person
of
the
Hindoo
Trinity
You
sit
there
so
calm
and
securely
With
feet
folded
up
so
demurely
You
re
the
First
Person
Singular
surely
Polydore
Smith
BRAIN
n
An
apparatus
with
which
we
think
what
we
think
That
which
distinguishes
the
man
who
is
content
to
be
something
from
the
man
who
wishes
to
do
something
A
man
of
great
wealth
or
one
who
has
been
pitchforked
into
high
station
has
commonly
such
a
headful
of
brain
that
his
neighbors
cannot
keep
their
hats
on
In
our
civilization
and
under
our
republican
form
of
government
brain
is
so
highly
honored
that
it
is
rewarded
by
exemption
from
the
cares
of
office
BRANDY
n
A
cordial
composed
of
one
part
thunder
and
lightning
one
part
remorse
two
parts
bloody
murder
one
part
death
hell
and
the
grave
and
four
parts
clarified
Satan
Dose
a
headful
all
the
time
Brandy
is
said
by
Dr
Johnson
to
be
the
drink
of
heroes
Only
a
hero
will
venture
to
drink
it
BRIDE
n
A
woman
with
a
fine
prospect
of
happiness
behind
her
BRUTE
n
See
HUSBAND
C
CAABA
n
A
large
stone
presented
by
the
archangel
Gabriel
to
the
patriarch
Abraham
and
preserved
at
Mecca
The
patriarch
had
perhaps
asked
the
archangel
for
bread
CABBAGE
n
A
familiar
kitchen
garden
vegetable
about
as
large
and
wise
as
a
man
s
head
The
cabbage
is
so
called
from
Cabagius
a
prince
who
on
ascending
the
throne
issued
a
decree
appointing
a
High
Council
of
Empire
consisting
of
the
members
of
his
predecessor
s
Ministry
and
the
cabbages
in
the
royal
garden
When
any
of
his
Majesty
s
measures
of
state
policy
miscarried
conspicuously
it
was
gravely
announced
that
several
members
of
the
High
Council
had
been
beheaded
and
his
murmuring
subjects
were
appeased
CALAMITY
n
A
more
than
commonly
plain
and
unmistakable
reminder
that
the
affairs
of
this
life
are
not
of
our
own
ordering
Calamities
are
of
two
kinds
misfortune
to
ourselves
and
good
fortune
to
others
CALLOUS
adj
Gifted
with
great
fortitude
to
bear
the
evils
afflicting
another
When
Zeno
was
told
that
one
of
his
enemies
was
no
more
he
was
observed
to
be
deeply
moved
What
said
one
of
his
disciples
you
weep
at
the
death
of
an
enemy
Ah
tis
true
replied
the
great
Stoic
but
you
should
see
me
smile
at
the
death
of
a
friend
CALUMNUS
n
A
graduate
of
the
School
for
Scandal
CAMEL
n
A
quadruped
the
Splaypes
humpidorsus
of
great
value
to
the
show
business
There
are
two
kinds
of
camels
the
camel
proper
and
the
camel
improper
It
is
the
latter
that
is
always
exhibited
CANNIBAL
n
A
gastronome
of
the
old
school
who
preserves
the
simple
tastes
and
adheres
to
the
natural
diet
of
the
pre
pork
period
CANNON
n
An
instrument
employed
in
the
rectification
of
national
boundaries
CANONICALS
n
The
motley
worm
by
Jesters
of
the
Court
of
Heaven
CAPITAL
n
The
seat
of
misgovernment
That
which
provides
the
fire
the
pot
the
dinner
the
table
and
the
knife
and
fork
for
the
anarchist
the
part
of
the
repast
that
himself
supplies
is
the
disgrace
before
meat
Capital
Punishment
a
penalty
regarding
the
justice
and
expediency
of
which
many
worthy
persons
including
all
the
assassins
entertain
grave
misgivings
CARMELITE
n
A
mendicant
friar
of
the
order
of
Mount
Carmel
As
Death
was
a
rising
out
one
day
Across
Mount
Camel
he
took
his
way
Where
he
met
a
mendicant
monk
Some
three
or
four
quarters
drunk
With
a
holy
leer
and
a
pious
grin
Ragged
and
fat
and
as
saucy
as
sin
Who
held
out
his
hands
and
cried
Give
give
in
Charity
s
name
I
pray
Give
in
the
name
of
the
Church
O
give
Give
that
her
holy
sons
may
live
And
Death
replied
Smiling
long
and
wide
I
ll
give
holy
father
I
ll
give
thee
a
ride
With
a
rattle
and
bang
Of
his
bones
he
sprang
From
his
famous
Pale
Horse
with
his
spear
By
the
neck
and
the
foot
Seized
the
fellow
and
put
Him
astride
with
his
face
to
the
rear
The
Monarch
laughed
loud
with
a
sound
that
fell
Like
clods
on
the
coffin
s
sounding
shell
Ho
ho
A
beggar
on
horseback
they
say
Will
ride
to
the
devil
and
thump
Fell
the
flat
of
his
dart
on
the
rump
Of
the
charger
which
galloped
away
Faster
and
faster
and
faster
it
flew
Till
the
rocks
and
the
flocks
and
the
trees
that
grew
By
the
road
were
dim
and
blended
and
blue
To
the
wild
wild
eyes
Of
the
rider
in
size
Resembling
a
couple
of
blackberry
pies
Death
laughed
again
as
a
tomb
might
laugh
At
a
burial
service
spoiled
And
the
mourners
intentions
foiled
By
the
body
erecting
Its
head
and
objecting
To
further
proceedings
in
its
behalf
Many
a
year
and
many
a
day
Have
passed
since
these
events
away
The
monk
has
long
been
a
dusty
corse
And
Death
has
never
recovered
his
horse
For
the
friar
got
hold
of
its
tail
And
steered
it
within
the
pale
Of
the
monastery
gray
Where
the
beast
was
stabled
and
fed
With
barley
and
oil
and
bread
Till
fatter
it
grew
than
the
fattest
friar
And
so
in
due
course
was
appointed
Prior
G
J
CARNIVOROUS
adj
Addicted
to
the
cruelty
of
devouring
the
timorous
vegetarian
his
heirs
and
assigns
CARTESIAN
adj
Relating
to
Descartes
a
famous
philosopher
author
of
the
celebrated
dictum
Cogito
ergo
sum
whereby
he
was
pleased
to
suppose
he
demonstrated
the
reality
of
human
existence
The
dictum
might
be
improved
however
thus
Cogito
cogito
ergo
cogito
sum
I
think
that
I
think
therefore
I
think
that
I
am
as
close
an
approach
to
certainty
as
any
philosopher
has
yet
made
CAT
n
A
soft
indestructible
automaton
provided
by
nature
to
be
kicked
when
things
go
wrong
in
the
domestic
circle
This
is
a
dog
This
is
a
cat
This
is
a
frog
This
is
a
rat
Run
dog
mew
cat
Jump
frog
gnaw
rat
Elevenson
CAVILER
n
A
critic
of
our
own
work
CEMETERY
n
An
isolated
suburban
spot
where
mourners
match
lies
poets
write
at
a
target
and
stone
cutters
spell
for
a
wager
The
inscriptions
following
will
serve
to
illustrate
the
success
attained
in
these
Olympian
games
His
virtues
were
so
conspicuous
that
his
enemies
unable
to
overlook
them
denied
them
and
his
friends
to
whose
loose
lives
they
were
a
rebuke
represented
them
as
vices
They
are
here
commemorated
by
his
family
who
shared
them
In
the
earth
we
here
prepare
a
Place
to
lay
our
little
Clara
Thomas
M
and
Mary
Frazer
P
S
Gabriel
will
raise
her
CENTAUR
n
One
of
a
race
of
persons
who
lived
before
the
division
of
labor
had
been
carried
to
such
a
pitch
of
differentiation
and
who
followed
the
primitive
economic
maxim
Every
man
his
own
horse
The
best
of
the
lot
was
Chiron
who
to
the
wisdom
and
virtues
of
the
horse
added
the
fleetness
of
man
The
scripture
story
of
the
head
of
John
the
Baptist
on
a
charger
shows
that
pagan
myths
have
somewhat
sophisticated
sacred
history
CERBERUS
n
The
watch
dog
of
Hades
whose
duty
it
was
to
guard
the
entrance
against
whom
or
what
does
not
clearly
appear
everybody
sooner
or
later
had
to
go
there
and
nobody
wanted
to
carry
off
the
entrance
Cerberus
is
known
to
have
had
three
heads
and
some
of
the
poets
have
credited
him
with
as
many
as
a
hundred
Professor
Graybill
whose
clerky
erudition
and
profound
knowledge
of
Greek
give
his
opinion
great
weight
has
averaged
all
the
estimates
and
makes
the
number
twenty
seven
a
judgment
that
would
be
entirely
conclusive
is
Professor
Graybill
had
known
a
something
about
dogs
and
b
something
about
arithmetic
CHILDHOOD
n
The
period
of
human
life
intermediate
between
the
idiocy
of
infancy
and
the
folly
of
youth
two
removes
from
the
sin
of
manhood
and
three
from
the
remorse
of
age
CHRISTIAN
n
One
who
believes
that
the
New
Testament
is
a
divinely
inspired
book
admirably
suited
to
the
spiritual
needs
of
his
neighbor
One
who
follows
the
teachings
of
Christ
in
so
far
as
they
are
not
inconsistent
with
a
life
of
sin
I
dreamed
I
stood
upon
a
hill
and
lo
The
godly
multitudes
walked
to
and
fro
Beneath
in
Sabbath
garments
fitly
clad
With
pious
mien
appropriately
sad
While
all
the
church
bells
made
a
solemn
din
A
fire
alarm
to
those
who
lived
in
sin
Then
saw
I
gazing
thoughtfully
below
With
tranquil
face
upon
that
holy
show
A
tall
spare
figure
in
a
robe
of
white
Whose
eyes
diffused
a
melancholy
light
God
keep
you
strange
I
exclaimed
You
are
No
doubt
your
habit
shows
it
from
afar
And
yet
I
entertain
the
hope
that
you
Like
these
good
people
are
a
Christian
too
He
raised
his
eyes
and
with
a
look
so
stern
It
made
me
with
a
thousand
blushes
burn
Replied
his
manner
with
disdain
was
spiced
What
I
a
Christian
No
indeed
I
m
Christ
G
J
CIRCUS
n
A
place
where
horses
ponies
and
elephants
are
permitted
to
see
men
women
and
children
acting
the
fool
CLAIRVOYANT
n
A
person
commonly
a
woman
who
has
the
power
of
seeing
that
which
is
invisible
to
her
patron
namely
that
he
is
a
blockhead
CLARIONET
n
An
instrument
of
torture
operated
by
a
person
with
cotton
in
his
ears
There
are
two
instruments
that
are
worse
than
a
clarionet
two
clarionets
CLERGYMAN
n
A
man
who
undertakes
the
management
of
our
spiritual
affairs
as
a
method
of
better
his
temporal
ones
CLIO
n
One
of
the
nine
Muses
Clio
s
function
was
to
preside
over
history
which
she
did
with
great
dignity
many
of
the
prominent
citizens
of
Athens
occupying
seats
on
the
platform
the
meetings
being
addressed
by
Messrs
Xenophon
Herodotus
and
other
popular
speakers
CLOCK
n
A
machine
of
great
moral
value
to
man
allaying
his
concern
for
the
future
by
reminding
him
what
a
lot
of
time
remains
to
him
A
busy
man
complained
one
day
I
get
no
time
What
s
that
you
say
Cried
out
his
friend
a
lazy
quiz
You
have
sir
all
the
time
there
is
There
s
plenty
too
and
don
t
you
doubt
it
We
re
never
for
an
hour
without
it
Purzil
Crofe
CLOSE
FISTED
adj
Unduly
desirous
of
keeping
that
which
many
meritorious
persons
wish
to
obtain
Close
fisted
Scotchman
Johnson
cried
To
thrifty
J
Macpherson
See
me
I
m
ready
to
divide
With
any
worthy
person
Sad
Jamie
That
is
very
true
The
boast
requires
no
backing
And
all
are
worthy
sir
to
you
Who
have
what
you
are
lacking
Anita
M
Bobe
COENOBITE
n
A
man
who
piously
shuts
himself
up
to
meditate
upon
the
sin
of
wickedness
and
to
keep
it
fresh
in
his
mind
joins
a
brotherhood
of
awful
examples
O
Coenobite
O
coenobite
Monastical
gregarian
You
differ
from
the
anchorite
That
solitudinarian
With
vollied
prayers
you
wound
Old
Nick
With
dropping
shots
he
makes
him
sick
Quincy
Giles
COMFORT
n
A
state
of
mind
produced
by
contemplation
of
a
neighbor
s
uneasiness
COMMENDATION
n
The
tribute
that
we
pay
to
achievements
that
resembles
but
do
not
equal
our
own
COMMERCE
n
A
kind
of
transaction
in
which
A
plunders
from
B
the
goods
of
C
and
for
compensation
B
picks
the
pocket
of
D
of
money
belonging
to
E
COMMONWEALTH
n
An
administrative
entity
operated
by
an
incalculable
multitude
of
political
parasites
logically
active
but
fortuitously
efficient
This
commonwealth
s
capitol
s
corridors
view
So
thronged
with
a
hungry
and
indolent
crew
Of
clerks
pages
porters
and
all
attaches
Whom
rascals
appoint
and
the
populace
pays
That
a
cat
cannot
slip
through
the
thicket
of
shins
Nor
hear
its
own
shriek
for
the
noise
of
their
chins
On
clerks
and
on
pages
and
porters
and
all
Misfortune
attend
and
disaster
befall
May
life
be
to
them
a
succession
of
hurts
May
fleas
by
the
bushel
inhabit
their
shirts
May
aches
and
diseases
encamp
in
their
bones
Their
lungs
full
of
tubercles
bladders
of
stones
May
microbes
bacilli
their
tissues
infest
And
tapeworms
securely
their
bowels
digest
May
corn
cobs
be
snared
without
hope
in
their
hair
And
frequent
impalement
their
pleasure
impair
Disturbed
be
their
dreams
by
the
awful
discourse
Of
audible
sofas
sepulchrally
hoarse
By
chairs
acrobatic
and
wavering
floors
The
mattress
that
kicks
and
the
pillow
that
snores
Sons
of
cupidity
cradled
in
sin
Your
criminal
ranks
may
the
death
angel
thin
Avenging
the
friend
whom
I
couldn
t
work
in
K
Q
COMPROMISE
n
Such
an
adjustment
of
conflicting
interests
as
gives
each
adversary
the
satisfaction
of
thinking
he
has
got
what
he
ought
not
to
have
and
is
deprived
of
nothing
except
what
was
justly
his
due
COMPULSION
n
The
eloquence
of
power
CONDOLE
v
i
To
show
that
bereavement
is
a
smaller
evil
than
sympathy
CONFIDANT
CONFIDANTE
n
One
entrusted
by
A
with
the
secrets
of
B
confided
by
him
to
C
CONGRATULATION
n
The
civility
of
envy
CONGRESS
n
A
body
of
men
who
meet
to
repeal
laws
CONNOISSEUR
n
A
specialist
who
knows
everything
about
something
and
nothing
about
anything
else
An
old
wine
bibber
having
been
smashed
in
a
railway
collision
some
wine
was
pouted
on
his
lips
to
revive
him
Pauillac
he
murmured
and
died
CONSERVATIVE
n
A
statesman
who
is
enamored
of
existing
evils
as
distinguished
from
the
Liberal
who
wishes
to
replace
them
with
others
CONSOLATION
n
The
knowledge
that
a
better
man
is
more
unfortunate
than
yourself
CONSUL
n
In
American
politics
a
person
who
having
failed
to
secure
an
office
from
the
people
is
given
one
by
the
Administration
on
condition
that
he
leave
the
country
CONSULT
v
i
To
seek
another
s
disapproval
of
a
course
already
decided
on
CONTEMPT
n
The
feeling
of
a
prudent
man
for
an
enemy
who
is
too
formidable
safely
to
be
opposed
CONTROVERSY
n
A
battle
in
which
spittle
or
ink
replaces
the
injurious
cannon
ball
and
the
inconsiderate
bayonet
In
controversy
with
the
facile
tongue
That
bloodless
warfare
of
the
old
and
young
So
seek
your
adversary
to
engage
That
on
himself
he
shall
exhaust
his
rage
And
like
a
snake
that
s
fastened
to
the
ground
With
his
own
fangs
inflict
the
fatal
wound
You
ask
me
how
this
miracle
is
done
Adopt
his
own
opinions
one
by
one
And
taunt
him
to
refute
them
in
his
wrath
He
ll
sweep
them
pitilessly
from
his
path
Advance
then
gently
all
you
wish
to
prove
Each
proposition
prefaced
with
As
you
ve
So
well
remarked
or
As
you
wisely
say
And
I
cannot
dispute
or
By
the
way
This
view
of
it
which
better
far
expressed
Runs
through
your
argument
Then
leave
the
rest
To
him
secure
that
he
ll
perform
his
trust
And
prove
your
views
intelligent
and
just
Conmore
Apel
Brune
CONVENT
n
A
place
of
retirement
for
woman
who
wish
for
leisure
to
meditate
upon
the
vice
of
idleness
CONVERSATION
n
A
fair
to
the
display
of
the
minor
mental
commodities
each
exhibitor
being
too
intent
upon
the
arrangement
of
his
own
wares
to
observe
those
of
his
neighbor
CORONATION
n
The
ceremony
of
investing
a
sovereign
with
the
outward
and
visible
signs
of
his
divine
right
to
be
blown
skyhigh
with
a
dynamite
bomb
CORPORAL
n
A
man
who
occupies
the
lowest
rung
of
the
military
ladder
Fiercely
the
battle
raged
and
sad
to
tell
Our
corporal
heroically
fell
Fame
from
her
height
looked
down
upon
the
brawl
And
said
He
hadn
t
very
far
to
fall
Giacomo
Smith
CORPORATION
n
An
ingenious
device
for
obtaining
individual
profit
without
individual
responsibility
CORSAIR
n
A
politician
of
the
seas
COURT
FOOL
n
The
plaintiff
COWARD
n
One
who
in
a
perilous
emergency
thinks
with
his
legs
CRAYFISH
n
A
small
crustacean
very
much
resembling
the
lobster
but
less
indigestible
In
this
small
fish
I
take
it
that
human
wisdom
is
admirably
figured
and
symbolized
for
whereas
the
crayfish
doth
move
only
backward
and
can
have
only
retrospection
seeing
naught
but
the
perils
already
passed
so
the
wisdom
of
man
doth
not
enable
him
to
avoid
the
follies
that
beset
his
course
but
only
to
apprehend
their
nature
afterward
Sir
James
Merivale
CREDITOR
n
One
of
a
tribe
of
savages
dwelling
beyond
the
Financial
Straits
and
dreaded
for
their
desolating
incursions
CREMONA
n
A
high
priced
violin
made
in
Connecticut
CRITIC
n
A
person
who
boasts
himself
hard
to
please
because
nobody
tries
to
please
him
There
is
a
land
of
pure
delight
Beyond
the
Jordan
s
flood
Where
saints
apparelled
all
in
white
Fling
back
the
critic
s
mud
And
as
he
legs
it
through
the
skies
His
pelt
a
sable
hue
He
sorrows
sore
to
recognize
The
missiles
that
he
threw
Orrin
Goof
CROSS
n
An
ancient
religious
symbol
erroneously
supposed
to
owe
its
significance
to
the
most
solemn
event
in
the
history
of
Christianity
but
really
antedating
it
by
thousands
of
years
By
many
it
has
been
believed
to
be
identical
with
the
crux
ansata
of
the
ancient
phallic
worship
but
it
has
been
traced
even
beyond
all
that
we
know
of
that
to
the
rites
of
primitive
peoples
We
have
to
day
the
White
Cross
as
a
symbol
of
chastity
and
the
Red
Cross
as
a
badge
of
benevolent
neutrality
in
war
Having
in
mind
the
former
the
reverend
Father
Gassalasca
Jape
smites
the
lyre
to
the
effect
following
Be
good
be
good
the
sisterhood
Cry
out
in
holy
chorus
And
to
dissuade
from
sin
parade
Their
various
charms
before
us
But
why
O
why
has
ne
er
an
eye
Seen
her
of
winsome
manner
And
youthful
grace
and
pretty
face
Flaunting
the
White
Cross
banner
Now
where
s
the
need
of
speech
and
screed
To
better
our
behaving
A
simpler
plan
for
saving
man
But
first
is
he
worth
saving
Is
dears
when
he
declines
to
flee
From
bad
thoughts
that
beset
him
Ignores
the
Law
as
t
were
a
straw
And
wants
to
sin
don
t
let
him
CUI
BONO
Latin
What
good
would
that
do
me
CUNNING
n
The
faculty
that
distinguishes
a
weak
animal
or
person
from
a
strong
one
It
brings
its
possessor
much
mental
satisfaction
and
great
material
adversity
An
Italian
proverb
says
The
furrier
gets
the
skins
of
more
foxes
than
asses
CUPID
n
The
so
called
god
of
love
This
bastard
creation
of
a
barbarous
fancy
was
no
doubt
inflicted
upon
mythology
for
the
sins
of
its
deities
Of
all
unbeautiful
and
inappropriate
conceptions
this
is
the
most
reasonless
and
offensive
The
notion
of
symbolizing
sexual
love
by
a
semisexless
babe
and
comparing
the
pains
of
passion
to
the
wounds
of
an
arrow
of
introducing
this
pudgy
homunculus
into
art
grossly
to
materialize
the
subtle
spirit
and
suggestion
of
the
work
this
is
eminently
worthy
of
the
age
that
giving
it
birth
laid
it
on
the
doorstep
of
prosperity
CURIOSITY
n
An
objectionable
quality
of
the
female
mind
The
desire
to
know
whether
or
not
a
woman
is
cursed
with
curiosity
is
one
of
the
most
active
and
insatiable
passions
of
the
masculine
soul
CURSE
v
t
Energetically
to
belabor
with
a
verbal
slap
stick
This
is
an
operation
which
in
literature
particularly
in
the
drama
is
commonly
fatal
to
the
victim
Nevertheless
the
liability
to
a
cursing
is
a
risk
that
cuts
but
a
small
figure
in
fixing
the
rates
of
life
insurance
CYNIC
n
A
blackguard
whose
faulty
vision
sees
things
as
they
are
not
as
they
ought
to
be
Hence
the
custom
among
the
Scythians
of
plucking
out
a
cynic
s
eyes
to
improve
his
vision
D
DAMN
v
A
word
formerly
much
used
by
the
Paphlagonians
the
meaning
of
which
is
lost
By
the
learned
Dr
Dolabelly
Gak
it
is
believed
to
have
been
a
term
of
satisfaction
implying
the
highest
possible
degree
of
mental
tranquillity
Professor
Groke
on
the
contrary
thinks
it
expressed
an
emotion
of
tumultuous
delight
because
it
so
frequently
occurs
in
combination
with
the
word
jod
or
god
meaning
joy
It
would
be
with
great
diffidence
that
I
should
advance
an
opinion
conflicting
with
that
of
either
of
these
formidable
authorities
DANCE
v
i
To
leap
about
to
the
sound
of
tittering
music
preferably
with
arms
about
your
neighbor
s
wife
or
daughter
There
are
many
kinds
of
dances
but
all
those
requiring
the
participation
of
the
two
sexes
have
two
characteristics
in
common
they
are
conspicuously
innocent
and
warmly
loved
by
the
vicious
DANGER
n
A
savage
beast
which
when
it
sleeps
Man
girds
at
and
despises
But
takes
himself
away
by
leaps
And
bounds
when
it
arises
Ambat
Delaso
DARING
n
One
of
the
most
conspicuous
qualities
of
a
man
in
security
DATARY
n
A
high
ecclesiastic
official
of
the
Roman
Catholic
Church
whose
important
function
is
to
brand
the
Pope
s
bulls
with
the
words
Datum
Romae
He
enjoys
a
princely
revenue
and
the
friendship
of
God
DAWN
n
The
time
when
men
of
reason
go
to
bed
Certain
old
men
prefer
to
rise
at
about
that
time
taking
a
cold
bath
and
a
long
walk
with
an
empty
stomach
and
otherwise
mortifying
the
flesh
They
then
point
with
pride
to
these
practices
as
the
cause
of
their
sturdy
health
and
ripe
years
the
truth
being
that
they
are
hearty
and
old
not
because
of
their
habits
but
in
spite
of
them
The
reason
we
find
only
robust
persons
doing
this
thing
is
that
it
has
killed
all
the
others
who
have
tried
it
DAY
n
A
period
of
twenty
four
hours
mostly
misspent
This
period
is
divided
into
two
parts
the
day
proper
and
the
night
or
day
improper
the
former
devoted
to
sins
of
business
the
latter
consecrated
to
the
other
sort
These
two
kinds
of
social
activity
overlap
DEAD
adj
Done
with
the
work
of
breathing
done
With
all
the
world
the
mad
race
run
Though
to
the
end
the
golden
goal
Attained
and
found
to
be
a
hole
Squatol
Johnes
DEBAUCHEE
n
One
who
has
so
earnestly
pursued
pleasure
that
he
has
had
the
misfortune
to
overtake
it
DEBT
n
An
ingenious
substitute
for
the
chain
and
whip
of
the
slave
driver
As
pent
in
an
aquarium
the
troutlet
Swims
round
and
round
his
tank
to
find
an
outlet
Pressing
his
nose
against
the
glass
that
holds
him
Nor
ever
sees
the
prison
that
enfolds
him
So
the
poor
debtor
seeing
naught
around
him
Yet
feels
the
narrow
limits
that
impound
him
Grieves
at
his
debt
and
studies
to
evade
it
And
finds
at
last
he
might
as
well
have
paid
it
Barlow
S
Vode
DECALOGUE
n
A
series
of
commandments
ten
in
number
just
enough
to
permit
an
intelligent
selection
for
observance
but
not
enough
to
embarrass
the
choice
Following
is
the
revised
edition
of
the
Decalogue
calculated
for
this
meridian
Thou
shalt
no
God
but
me
adore
Twere
too
expensive
to
have
more
No
images
nor
idols
make
For
Robert
Ingersoll
to
break
Take
not
God
s
name
in
vain
select
A
time
when
it
will
have
effect
Work
not
on
Sabbath
days
at
all
But
go
to
see
the
teams
play
ball
Honor
thy
parents
That
creates
For
life
insurance
lower
rates
Kill
not
abet
not
those
who
kill
Thou
shalt
not
pay
thy
butcher
s
bill
Kiss
not
thy
neighbor
s
wife
unless
Thine
own
thy
neighbor
doth
caress
Don
t
steal
thou
lt
never
thus
compete
Successfully
in
business
Cheat
Bear
not
false
witness
that
is
low
But
hear
tis
rumored
so
and
so
Cover
thou
naught
that
thou
hast
not
By
hook
or
crook
or
somehow
got
G
J
DECIDE
v
i
To
succumb
to
the
preponderance
of
one
set
of
influences
over
another
set
A
leaf
was
riven
from
a
tree
I
mean
to
fall
to
earth
said
he
The
west
wind
rising
made
him
veer
Eastward
said
he
I
now
shall
steer
The
east
wind
rose
with
greater
force
Said
he
Twere
wise
to
change
my
course
With
equal
power
they
contend
He
said
My
judgment
I
suspend
Down
died
the
winds
the
leaf
elate
Cried
I
ve
decided
to
fall
straight
First
thoughts
are
best
That
s
not
the
moral
Just
choose
your
own
and
we
ll
not
quarrel
Howe
er
your
choice
may
chance
to
fall
You
ll
have
no
hand
in
it
at
all
G
J
DEFAME
v
t
To
lie
about
another
To
tell
the
truth
about
another
DEFENCELESS
adj
Unable
to
attack
DEGENERATE
adj
Less
conspicuously
admirable
than
one
s
ancestors
The
contemporaries
of
Homer
were
striking
examples
of
degeneracy
it
required
ten
of
them
to
raise
a
rock
or
a
riot
that
one
of
the
heroes
of
the
Trojan
war
could
have
raised
with
ease
Homer
never
tires
of
sneering
at
men
who
live
in
these
degenerate
days
which
is
perhaps
why
they
suffered
him
to
beg
his
bread
a
marked
instance
of
returning
good
for
evil
by
the
way
for
if
they
had
forbidden
him
he
would
certainly
have
starved
DEGRADATION
n
One
of
the
stages
of
moral
and
social
progress
from
private
station
to
political
preferment
DEINOTHERIUM
n
An
extinct
pachyderm
that
flourished
when
the
Pterodactyl
was
in
fashion
The
latter
was
a
native
of
Ireland
its
name
being
pronounced
Terry
Dactyl
or
Peter
O
Dactyl
as
the
man
pronouncing
it
may
chance
to
have
heard
it
spoken
or
seen
it
printed
DEJEUNER
n
The
breakfast
of
an
American
who
has
been
in
Paris
Variously
pronounced
DELEGATION
n
In
American
politics
an
article
of
merchandise
that
comes
in
sets
DELIBERATION
n
The
act
of
examining
one
s
bread
to
determine
which
side
it
is
buttered
on
DELUGE
n
A
notable
first
experiment
in
baptism
which
washed
away
the
sins
and
sinners
of
the
world
DELUSION
n
The
father
of
a
most
respectable
family
comprising
Enthusiasm
Affection
Self
denial
Faith
Hope
Charity
and
many
other
goodly
sons
and
daughters
All
hail
Delusion
Were
it
not
for
thee
The
world
turned
topsy
turvy
we
should
see
For
Vice
respectable
with
cleanly
fancies
Would
fly
abandoned
Virtue
s
gross
advances
Mumfrey
Mappel
DENTIST
n
A
prestidigitator
who
putting
metal
into
your
mouth
pulls
coins
out
of
your
pocket
DEPENDENT
adj
Reliant
upon
another
s
generosity
for
the
support
which
you
are
not
in
a
position
to
exact
from
his
fears
DEPUTY
n
A
male
relative
of
an
office
holder
or
of
his
bondsman
The
deputy
is
commonly
a
beautiful
young
man
with
a
red
necktie
and
an
intricate
system
of
cobwebs
extending
from
his
nose
to
his
desk
When
accidentally
struck
by
the
janitor
s
broom
he
gives
off
a
cloud
of
dust
Chief
Deputy
the
Master
cried
To
day
the
books
are
to
be
tried
By
experts
and
accountants
who
Have
been
commissioned
to
go
through
Our
office
here
to
see
if
we
Have
stolen
injudiciously
Please
have
the
proper
entries
made
The
proper
balances
displayed
Conforming
to
the
whole
amount
Of
cash
on
hand
which
they
will
count
I
ve
long
admired
your
punctual
way
Here
at
the
break
and
close
of
day
Confronting
in
your
chair
the
crowd
Of
business
men
whose
voices
loud
And
gestures
violent
you
quell
By
some
mysterious
calm
spell
Some
magic
lurking
in
your
look
That
brings
the
noisiest
to
book
And
spreads
a
holy
and
profound
Tranquillity
o
er
all
around
So
orderly
all
s
done
that
they
Who
came
to
draw
remain
to
pay
But
now
the
time
demands
at
last
That
you
employ
your
genius
vast
In
energies
more
active
Rise
And
shake
the
lightnings
from
your
eyes
Inspire
your
underlings
and
fling
Your
spirit
into
everything
The
Master
s
hand
here
dealt
a
whack
Upon
the
Deputy
s
bent
back
When
straightway
to
the
floor
there
fell
A
shrunken
globe
a
rattling
shell
A
blackened
withered
eyeless
head
The
man
had
been
a
twelvemonth
dead
Jamrach
Holobom
DESTINY
n
A
tyrant
s
authority
for
crime
and
fool
s
excuse
for
failure
DIAGNOSIS
n
A
physician
s
forecast
of
the
disease
by
the
patient
s
pulse
and
purse
DIAPHRAGM
n
A
muscular
partition
separating
disorders
of
the
chest
from
disorders
of
the
bowels
DIARY
n
A
daily
record
of
that
part
of
one
s
life
which
he
can
relate
to
himself
without
blushing
Hearst
kept
a
diary
wherein
were
writ
All
that
he
had
of
wisdom
and
of
wit
So
the
Recording
Angel
when
Hearst
died
Erased
all
entries
of
his
own
and
cried
I
ll
judge
you
by
your
diary
Said
Hearst
Thank
you
twill
show
you
I
am
Saint
the
First
Straightway
producing
jubilant
and
proud
That
record
from
a
pocket
in
his
shroud
The
Angel
slowly
turned
the
pages
o
er
Each
stupid
line
of
which
he
knew
before
Glooming
and
gleaming
as
by
turns
he
hit
On
Shallow
sentiment
and
stolen
wit
Then
gravely
closed
the
book
and
gave
it
back
My
friend
you
ve
wandered
from
your
proper
track
You
d
never
be
content
this
side
the
tomb
For
big
ideas
Heaven
has
little
room
And
Hell
s
no
latitude
for
making
mirth
He
said
and
kicked
the
fellow
back
to
earth
The
Mad
Philosopher
DICTATOR
n
The
chief
of
a
nation
that
prefers
the
pestilence
of
despotism
to
the
plague
of
anarchy
DICTIONARY
n
A
malevolent
literary
device
for
cramping
the
growth
of
a
language
and
making
it
hard
and
inelastic
This
dictionary
however
is
a
most
useful
work
DIE
n
The
singular
of
dice
We
seldom
hear
the
word
because
there
is
a
prohibitory
proverb
Never
say
die
At
long
intervals
however
some
one
says
The
die
is
cast
which
is
not
true
for
it
is
cut
The
word
is
found
in
an
immortal
couplet
by
that
eminent
poet
and
domestic
economist
Senator
Depew
A
cube
of
cheese
no
larger
than
a
die
May
bait
the
trap
to
catch
a
nibbling
mie
DIGESTION
n
The
conversion
of
victuals
into
virtues
When
the
process
is
imperfect
vices
are
evolved
instead
a
circumstance
from
which
that
wicked
writer
Dr
Jeremiah
Blenn
infers
that
the
ladies
are
the
greater
sufferers
from
dyspepsia
DIPLOMACY
n
The
patriotic
art
of
lying
for
one
s
country
DISABUSE
v
t
The
present
your
neighbor
with
another
and
better
error
than
the
one
which
he
has
deemed
it
advantageous
to
embrace
DISCRIMINATE
v
i
To
note
the
particulars
in
which
one
person
or
thing
is
if
possible
more
objectionable
than
another
DISCUSSION
n
A
method
of
confirming
others
in
their
errors
DISOBEDIENCE
n
The
silver
lining
to
the
cloud
of
servitude
DISOBEY
v
t
To
celebrate
with
an
appropriate
ceremony
the
maturity
of
a
command
His
right
to
govern
me
is
clear
as
day
My
duty
manifest
to
disobey
And
if
that
fit
observance
e
er
I
shut
May
I
and
duty
be
alike
undone
Israfel
Brown
DISSEMBLE
v
i
To
put
a
clean
shirt
upon
the
character
Let
us
dissemble
Adam
DISTANCE
n
The
only
thing
that
the
rich
are
willing
for
the
poor
to
call
theirs
and
keep
DISTRESS
n
A
disease
incurred
by
exposure
to
the
prosperity
of
a
friend
DIVINATION
n
The
art
of
nosing
out
the
occult
Divination
is
of
as
many
kinds
as
there
are
fruit
bearing
varieties
of
the
flowering
dunce
and
the
early
fool
DOG
n
A
kind
of
additional
or
subsidiary
Deity
designed
to
catch
the
overflow
and
surplus
of
the
world
s
worship
This
Divine
Being
in
some
of
his
smaller
and
silkier
incarnations
takes
in
the
affection
of
Woman
the
place
to
which
there
is
no
human
male
aspirant
The
Dog
is
a
survival
an
anachronism
He
toils
not
neither
does
he
spin
yet
Solomon
in
all
his
glory
never
lay
upon
a
door
mat
all
day
long
sun
soaked
and
fly
fed
and
fat
while
his
master
worked
for
the
means
wherewith
to
purchase
the
idle
wag
of
the
Solomonic
tail
seasoned
with
a
look
of
tolerant
recognition
DRAGOON
n
A
soldier
who
combines
dash
and
steadiness
in
so
equal
measure
that
he
makes
his
advances
on
foot
and
his
retreats
on
horseback
DRAMATIST
n
One
who
adapts
plays
from
the
French
DRUIDS
n
Priests
and
ministers
of
an
ancient
Celtic
religion
which
did
not
disdain
to
employ
the
humble
allurement
of
human
sacrifice
Very
little
is
now
known
about
the
Druids
and
their
faith
Pliny
says
their
religion
originating
in
Britain
spread
eastward
as
far
as
Persia
Caesar
says
those
who
desired
to
study
its
mysteries
went
to
Britain
Caesar
himself
went
to
Britain
but
does
not
appear
to
have
obtained
any
high
preferment
in
the
Druidical
Church
although
his
talent
for
human
sacrifice
was
considerable
Druids
performed
their
religious
rites
in
groves
and
knew
nothing
of
church
mortgages
and
the
season
ticket
system
of
pew
rents
They
were
in
short
heathens
and
as
they
were
once
complacently
catalogued
by
a
distinguished
prelate
of
the
Church
of
England
Dissenters
DUCK
BILL
n
Your
account
at
your
restaurant
during
the
canvas
back
season
DUEL
n
A
formal
ceremony
preliminary
to
the
reconciliation
of
two
enemies
Great
skill
is
necessary
to
its
satisfactory
observance
if
awkwardly
performed
the
most
unexpected
and
deplorable
consequences
sometimes
ensue
A
long
time
ago
a
man
lost
his
life
in
a
duel
That
dueling
s
a
gentlemanly
vice
I
hold
and
wish
that
it
had
been
my
lot
To
live
my
life
out
in
some
favored
spot
Some
country
where
it
is
considered
nice
To
split
a
rival
like
a
fish
or
slice
A
husband
like
a
spud
or
with
a
shot
Bring
down
a
debtor
doubled
in
a
knot
And
ready
to
be
put
upon
the
ice
Some
miscreants
there
are
whom
I
do
long
To
shoot
to
stab
or
some
such
way
reclaim
The
scurvy
rogues
to
better
lives
and
manners
I
seem
to
see
them
now
a
mighty
throng
It
looks
as
if
to
challenge
me
they
came
Jauntily
marching
with
brass
bands
and
banners
Xamba
Q
Dar
DULLARD
n
A
member
of
the
reigning
dynasty
in
letters
and
life
The
Dullards
came
in
with
Adam
and
being
both
numerous
and
sturdy
have
overrun
the
habitable
world
The
secret
of
their
power
is
their
insensibility
to
blows
tickle
them
with
a
bludgeon
and
they
laugh
with
a
platitude
The
Dullards
came
originally
from
Boeotia
whence
they
were
driven
by
stress
of
starvation
their
dullness
having
blighted
the
crops
For
some
centuries
they
infested
Philistia
and
many
of
them
are
called
Philistines
to
this
day
In
the
turbulent
times
of
the
Crusades
they
withdrew
thence
and
gradually
overspread
all
Europe
occupying
most
of
the
high
places
in
politics
art
literature
science
and
theology
Since
a
detachment
of
Dullards
came
over
with
the
Pilgrims
in
the
Mayflower
and
made
a
favorable
report
of
the
country
their
increase
by
birth
immigration
and
conversion
has
been
rapid
and
steady
According
to
the
most
trustworthy
statistics
the
number
of
adult
Dullards
in
the
United
States
is
but
little
short
of
thirty
millions
including
the
statisticians
The
intellectual
centre
of
the
race
is
somewhere
about
Peoria
Illinois
but
the
New
England
Dullard
is
the
most
shockingly
moral
DUTY
n
That
which
sternly
impels
us
in
the
direction
of
profit
along
the
line
of
desire
Sir
Lavender
Portwine
in
favor
at
court
Was
wroth
at
his
master
who
d
kissed
Lady
Port
His
anger
provoked
him
to
take
the
king
s
head
But
duty
prevailed
and
he
took
the
king
s
bread
Instead
G
J
E
EAT
v
i
To
perform
successively
and
successfully
the
functions
of
mastication
humectation
and
deglutition
I
was
in
the
drawing
room
enjoying
my
dinner
said
Brillat
Savarin
beginning
an
anecdote
What
interrupted
Rochebriant
eating
dinner
in
a
drawing
room
I
must
beg
you
to
observe
monsieur
explained
the
great
gastronome
that
I
did
not
say
I
was
eating
my
dinner
but
enjoying
it
I
had
dined
an
hour
before
EAVESDROP
v
i
Secretly
to
overhear
a
catalogue
of
the
crimes
and
vices
of
another
or
yourself
A
lady
with
one
of
her
ears
applied
To
an
open
keyhole
heard
inside
Two
female
gossips
in
converse
free
The
subject
engaging
them
was
she
I
think
said
one
and
my
husband
thinks
That
she
s
a
prying
inquisitive
minx
As
soon
as
no
more
of
it
she
could
hear
The
lady
indignant
removed
her
ear
I
will
not
stay
she
said
with
a
pout
To
hear
my
character
lied
about
Gopete
Sherany
ECCENTRICITY
n
A
method
of
distinction
so
cheap
that
fools
employ
it
to
accentuate
their
incapacity
ECONOMY
n
Purchasing
the
barrel
of
whiskey
that
you
do
not
need
for
the
price
of
the
cow
that
you
cannot
afford
EDIBLE
adj
Good
to
eat
and
wholesome
to
digest
as
a
worm
to
a
toad
a
toad
to
a
snake
a
snake
to
a
pig
a
pig
to
a
man
and
a
man
to
a
worm
EDITOR
n
A
person
who
combines
the
judicial
functions
of
Minos
Rhadamanthus
and
Aeacus
but
is
placable
with
an
obolus
a
severely
virtuous
censor
but
so
charitable
withal
that
he
tolerates
the
virtues
of
others
and
the
vices
of
himself
who
flings
about
him
the
splintering
lightning
and
sturdy
thunders
of
admonition
till
he
resembles
a
bunch
of
firecrackers
petulantly
uttering
his
mind
at
the
tail
of
a
dog
then
straightway
murmurs
a
mild
melodious
lay
soft
as
the
cooing
of
a
donkey
intoning
its
prayer
to
the
evening
star
Master
of
mysteries
and
lord
of
law
high
pinnacled
upon
the
throne
of
thought
his
face
suffused
with
the
dim
splendors
of
the
Transfiguration
his
legs
intertwisted
and
his
tongue
a
cheek
the
editor
spills
his
will
along
the
paper
and
cuts
it
off
in
lengths
to
suit
And
at
intervals
from
behind
the
veil
of
the
temple
is
heard
the
voice
of
the
foreman
demanding
three
inches
of
wit
and
six
lines
of
religious
meditation
or
bidding
him
turn
off
the
wisdom
and
whack
up
some
pathos
O
the
Lord
of
Law
on
the
Throne
of
Thought
A
gilded
impostor
is
he
Of
shreds
and
patches
his
robes
are
wrought
His
crown
is
brass
Himself
an
ass
And
his
power
is
fiddle
dee
dee
Prankily
crankily
prating
of
naught
Silly
old
quilly
old
Monarch
of
Thought
Public
opinion
s
camp
follower
he
Thundering
blundering
plundering
free
Affected
Ungracious
Suspected
Mendacious
Respected
contemporaree
J
H
Bumbleshook
EDUCATION
n
That
which
discloses
to
the
wise
and
disguises
from
the
foolish
their
lack
of
understanding
EFFECT
n
The
second
of
two
phenomena
which
always
occur
together
in
the
same
order
The
first
called
a
Cause
is
said
to
generate
the
other
which
is
no
more
sensible
than
it
would
be
for
one
who
has
never
seen
a
dog
except
in
the
pursuit
of
a
rabbit
to
declare
the
rabbit
the
cause
of
a
dog
EGOTIST
n
A
person
of
low
taste
more
interested
in
himself
than
in
me
Megaceph
chosen
to
serve
the
State
In
the
halls
of
legislative
debate
One
day
with
all
his
credentials
came
To
the
capitol
s
door
and
announced
his
name
The
doorkeeper
looked
with
a
comical
twist
Of
the
face
at
the
eminent
egotist
And
said
Go
away
for
we
settle
here
All
manner
of
questions
knotty
and
queer
And
we
cannot
have
when
the
speaker
demands
To
be
told
how
every
member
stands
A
man
who
to
all
things
under
the
sky
Assents
by
eternally
voting
I
EJECTION
n
An
approved
remedy
for
the
disease
of
garrulity
It
is
also
much
used
in
cases
of
extreme
poverty
ELECTOR
n
One
who
enjoys
the
sacred
privilege
of
voting
for
the
man
of
another
man
s
choice
ELECTRICITY
n
The
power
that
causes
all
natural
phenomena
not
known
to
be
caused
by
something
else
It
is
the
same
thing
as
lightning
and
its
famous
attempt
to
strike
Dr
Franklin
is
one
of
the
most
picturesque
incidents
in
that
great
and
good
man
s
career
The
memory
of
Dr
Franklin
is
justly
held
in
great
reverence
particularly
in
France
where
a
waxen
effigy
of
him
was
recently
on
exhibition
bearing
the
following
touching
account
of
his
life
and
services
to
science
Monsieur
Franqulin
inventor
of
electricity
This
illustrious
savant
after
having
made
several
voyages
around
the
world
died
on
the
Sandwich
Islands
and
was
devoured
by
savages
of
whom
not
a
single
fragment
was
ever
recovered
Electricity
seems
destined
to
play
a
most
important
part
in
the
arts
and
industries
The
question
of
its
economical
application
to
some
purposes
is
still
unsettled
but
experiment
has
already
proved
that
it
will
propel
a
street
car
better
than
a
gas
jet
and
give
more
light
than
a
horse
ELEGY
n
A
composition
in
verse
in
which
without
employing
any
of
the
methods
of
humor
the
writer
aims
to
produce
in
the
reader
s
mind
the
dampest
kind
of
dejection
The
most
famous
English
example
begins
somewhat
like
this
The
cur
foretells
the
knell
of
parting
day
The
loafing
herd
winds
slowly
o
er
the
lea
The
wise
man
homeward
plods
I
only
stay
To
fiddle
faddle
in
a
minor
key
ELOQUENCE
n
The
art
of
orally
persuading
fools
that
white
is
the
color
that
it
appears
to
be
It
includes
the
gift
of
making
any
color
appear
white
ELYSIUM
n
An
imaginary
delightful
country
which
the
ancients
foolishly
believed
to
be
inhabited
by
the
spirits
of
the
good
This
ridiculous
and
mischievous
fable
was
swept
off
the
face
of
the
earth
by
the
early
Christians
may
their
souls
be
happy
in
Heaven
EMANCIPATION
n
A
bondman
s
change
from
the
tyranny
of
another
to
the
despotism
of
himself
He
was
a
slave
at
word
he
went
and
came
His
iron
collar
cut
him
to
the
bone
Then
Liberty
erased
his
owner
s
name
Tightened
the
rivets
and
inscribed
his
own
G
J
EMBALM
v
i
To
cheat
vegetation
by
locking
up
the
gases
upon
which
it
feeds
By
embalming
their
dead
and
thereby
deranging
the
natural
balance
between
animal
and
vegetable
life
the
Egyptians
made
their
once
fertile
and
populous
country
barren
and
incapable
of
supporting
more
than
a
meagre
crew
The
modern
metallic
burial
casket
is
a
step
in
the
same
direction
and
many
a
dead
man
who
ought
now
to
be
ornamenting
his
neighbor
s
lawn
as
a
tree
or
enriching
his
table
as
a
bunch
of
radishes
is
doomed
to
a
long
inutility
We
shall
get
him
after
awhile
if
we
are
spared
but
in
the
meantime
the
violet
and
rose
are
languishing
for
a
nibble
at
his
glutoeus
maximus
EMOTION
n
A
prostrating
disease
caused
by
a
determination
of
the
heart
to
the
head
It
is
sometimes
accompanied
by
a
copious
discharge
of
hydrated
chloride
of
sodium
from
the
eyes
ENCOMIAST
n
A
special
but
not
particular
kind
of
liar
END
n
The
position
farthest
removed
on
either
hand
from
the
Interlocutor
The
man
was
perishing
apace
Who
played
the
tambourine
The
seal
of
death
was
on
his
face
Twas
pallid
for
twas
clean
This
is
the
end
the
sick
man
said
In
faint
and
failing
tones
A
moment
later
he
was
dead
And
Tambourine
was
Bones
Tinley
Roquot
ENOUGH
pro
All
there
is
in
the
world
if
you
like
it
Enough
is
as
good
as
a
feast
for
that
matter
Enougher
s
as
good
as
a
feast
for
the
platter
Arbely
C
Strunk
ENTERTAINMENT
n
Any
kind
of
amusement
whose
inroads
stop
short
of
death
by
injection
ENTHUSIASM
n
A
distemper
of
youth
curable
by
small
doses
of
repentance
in
connection
with
outward
applications
of
experience
Byron
who
recovered
long
enough
to
call
it
entuzy
muzy
had
a
relapse
which
carried
him
off
to
Missolonghi
ENVELOPE
n
The
coffin
of
a
document
the
scabbard
of
a
bill
the
husk
of
a
remittance
the
bed
gown
of
a
love
letter
ENVY
n
Emulation
adapted
to
the
meanest
capacity
EPAULET
n
An
ornamented
badge
serving
to
distinguish
a
military
officer
from
the
enemy
that
is
to
say
from
the
officer
of
lower
rank
to
whom
his
death
would
give
promotion
EPICURE
n
An
opponent
of
Epicurus
an
abstemious
philosopher
who
holding
that
pleasure
should
be
the
chief
aim
of
man
wasted
no
time
in
gratification
from
the
senses
EPIGRAM
n
A
short
sharp
saying
in
prose
or
verse
frequently
characterize
by
acidity
or
acerbity
and
sometimes
by
wisdom
Following
are
some
of
the
more
notable
epigrams
of
the
learned
and
ingenious
Dr
Jamrach
Holobom
We
know
better
the
needs
of
ourselves
than
of
others
To
serve
oneself
is
economy
of
administration
In
each
human
heart
are
a
tiger
a
pig
an
ass
and
a
nightingale
Diversity
of
character
is
due
to
their
unequal
activity
There
are
three
sexes
males
females
and
girls
Beauty
in
women
and
distinction
in
men
are
alike
in
this
they
seem
to
be
the
unthinking
a
kind
of
credibility
Women
in
love
are
less
ashamed
than
men
They
have
less
to
be
ashamed
of
While
your
friend
holds
you
affectionately
by
both
your
hands
you
are
safe
for
you
can
watch
both
his
EPITAPH
n
An
inscription
on
a
tomb
showing
that
virtues
acquired
by
death
have
a
retroactive
effect
Following
is
a
touching
example
Here
lie
the
bones
of
Parson
Platt
Wise
pious
humble
and
all
that
Who
showed
us
life
as
all
should
live
it
Let
that
be
said
and
God
forgive
it
ERUDITION
n
Dust
shaken
out
of
a
book
into
an
empty
skull
So
wide
his
erudition
s
mighty
span
He
knew
Creation
s
origin
and
plan
And
only
came
by
accident
to
grief
He
thought
poor
man
twas
right
to
be
a
thief
Romach
Pute
ESOTERIC
adj
Very
particularly
abstruse
and
consummately
occult
The
ancient
philosophies
were
of
two
kinds
exoteric
those
that
the
philosophers
themselves
could
partly
understand
and
esoteric
those
that
nobody
could
understand
It
is
the
latter
that
have
most
profoundly
affected
modern
thought
and
found
greatest
acceptance
in
our
time
ETHNOLOGY
n
The
science
that
treats
of
the
various
tribes
of
Man
as
robbers
thieves
swindlers
dunces
lunatics
idiots
and
ethnologists
EUCHARIST
n
A
sacred
feast
of
the
religious
sect
of
Theophagi
A
dispute
once
unhappily
arose
among
the
members
of
this
sect
as
to
what
it
was
that
they
ate
In
this
controversy
some
five
hundred
thousand
have
already
been
slain
and
the
question
is
still
unsettled
EULOGY
n
Praise
of
a
person
who
has
either
the
advantages
of
wealth
and
power
or
the
consideration
to
be
dead
EVANGELIST
n
A
bearer
of
good
tidings
particularly
in
a
religious
sense
such
as
assure
us
of
our
own
salvation
and
the
damnation
of
our
neighbors
EVERLASTING
adj
Lasting
forever
It
is
with
no
small
diffidence
that
I
venture
to
offer
this
brief
and
elementary
definition
for
I
am
not
unaware
of
the
existence
of
a
bulky
volume
by
a
sometime
Bishop
of
Worcester
entitled
A
Partial
Definition
of
the
Word
Everlasting
as
Used
in
the
Authorized
Version
of
the
Holy
Scriptures
His
book
was
once
esteemed
of
great
authority
in
the
Anglican
Church
and
is
still
I
understand
studied
with
pleasure
to
the
mind
and
profit
of
the
soul
EXCEPTION
n
A
thing
which
takes
the
liberty
to
differ
from
other
things
of
its
class
as
an
honest
man
a
truthful
woman
etc
The
exception
proves
the
rule
is
an
expression
constantly
upon
the
lips
of
the
ignorant
who
parrot
it
from
one
another
with
never
a
thought
of
its
absurdity
In
the
Latin
Exceptio
probat
regulam
means
that
the
exception
tests
the
rule
puts
it
to
the
proof
not
confirms
it
The
malefactor
who
drew
the
meaning
from
this
excellent
dictum
and
substituted
a
contrary
one
of
his
own
exerted
an
evil
power
which
appears
to
be
immortal
EXCESS
n
In
morals
an
indulgence
that
enforces
by
appropriate
penalties
the
law
of
moderation
Hail
high
Excess
especially
in
wine
To
thee
in
worship
do
I
bend
the
knee
Who
preach
abstemiousness
unto
me
My
skull
thy
pulpit
as
my
paunch
thy
shrine
Precept
on
precept
aye
and
line
on
line
Could
ne
er
persuade
so
sweetly
to
agree
With
reason
as
thy
touch
exact
and
free
Upon
my
forehead
and
along
my
spine
At
thy
command
eschewing
pleasure
s
cup
With
the
hot
grape
I
warm
no
more
my
wit
When
on
thy
stool
of
penitence
I
sit
I
m
quite
converted
for
I
can
t
get
up
Ungrateful
he
who
afterward
would
falter
To
make
new
sacrifices
at
thine
altar
EXCOMMUNICATION
n
This
excommunication
is
a
word
In
speech
ecclesiastical
oft
heard
And
means
the
damning
with
bell
book
and
candle
Some
sinner
whose
opinions
are
a
scandal
A
rite
permitting
Satan
to
enslave
him
Forever
and
forbidding
Christ
to
save
him
Gat
Huckle
EXECUTIVE
n
An
officer
of
the
Government
whose
duty
it
is
to
enforce
the
wishes
of
the
legislative
power
until
such
time
as
the
judicial
department
shall
be
pleased
to
pronounce
them
invalid
and
of
no
effect
Following
is
an
extract
from
an
old
book
entitled
The
Lunarian
Astonished
Pfeiffer
Co
Boston
LUNARIAN
Then
when
your
Congress
has
passed
a
law
it
goes
directly
to
the
Supreme
Court
in
order
that
it
may
at
once
be
known
whether
it
is
constitutional
TERRESTRIAN
O
no
it
does
not
require
the
approval
of
the
Supreme
Court
until
having
perhaps
been
enforced
for
many
years
somebody
objects
to
its
operation
against
himself
I
mean
his
client
The
President
if
he
approves
it
begins
to
execute
it
at
once
LUNARIAN
Ah
the
executive
power
is
a
part
of
the
legislative
Do
your
policemen
also
have
to
approve
the
local
ordinances
that
they
enforce
TERRESTRIAN
Not
yet
at
least
not
in
their
character
of
constables
Generally
speaking
though
all
laws
require
the
approval
of
those
whom
they
are
intended
to
restrain
LUNARIAN
I
see
The
death
warrant
is
not
valid
until
signed
by
the
murderer
TERRESTRIAN
My
friend
you
put
it
too
strongly
we
are
not
so
consistent
LUNARIAN
But
this
system
of
maintaining
an
expensive
judicial
machinery
to
pass
upon
the
validity
of
laws
only
after
they
have
long
been
executed
and
then
only
when
brought
before
the
court
by
some
private
person
does
it
not
cause
great
confusion
TERRESTRIAN
It
does
LUNARIAN
Why
then
should
not
your
laws
previously
to
being
executed
be
validated
not
by
the
signature
of
your
President
but
by
that
of
the
Chief
Justice
of
the
Supreme
Court
TERRESTRIAN
There
is
no
precedent
for
any
such
course
LUNARIAN
Precedent
What
is
that
TERRESTRIAN
It
has
been
defined
by
five
hundred
lawyers
in
three
volumes
each
So
how
can
any
one
know
EXHORT
v
t
In
religious
affairs
to
put
the
conscience
of
another
upon
the
spit
and
roast
it
to
a
nut
brown
discomfort
EXILE
n
One
who
serves
his
country
by
residing
abroad
yet
is
not
an
ambassador
An
English
sea
captain
being
asked
if
he
had
read
The
Exile
of
Erin
replied
No
sir
but
I
should
like
to
anchor
on
it
Years
afterwards
when
he
had
been
hanged
as
a
pirate
after
a
career
of
unparalleled
atrocities
the
following
memorandum
was
found
in
the
ship
s
log
that
he
had
kept
at
the
time
of
his
reply
Aug
d
Made
a
joke
on
the
ex
Isle
of
Erin
Coldly
received
War
with
the
whole
world
EXISTENCE
n
A
transient
horrible
fantastic
dream
Wherein
is
nothing
yet
all
things
do
seem
From
which
we
re
wakened
by
a
friendly
nudge
Of
our
bedfellow
Death
and
cry
O
fudge
EXPERIENCE
n
The
wisdom
that
enables
us
to
recognize
as
an
undesirable
old
acquaintance
the
folly
that
we
have
already
embraced
To
one
who
journeying
through
night
and
fog
Is
mired
neck
deep
in
an
unwholesome
bog
Experience
like
the
rising
of
the
dawn
Reveals
the
path
that
he
should
not
have
gone
Joel
Frad
Bink
EXPOSTULATION
n
One
of
the
many
methods
by
which
fools
prefer
to
lose
their
friends
EXTINCTION
n
The
raw
material
out
of
which
theology
created
the
future
state
F
FAIRY
n
A
creature
variously
fashioned
and
endowed
that
formerly
inhabited
the
meadows
and
forests
It
was
nocturnal
in
its
habits
and
somewhat
addicted
to
dancing
and
the
theft
of
children
The
fairies
are
now
believed
by
naturalist
to
be
extinct
though
a
clergyman
of
the
Church
of
England
saw
three
near
Colchester
as
lately
as
while
passing
through
a
park
after
dining
with
the
lord
of
the
manor
The
sight
greatly
staggered
him
and
he
was
so
affected
that
his
account
of
it
was
incoherent
In
the
year
a
troop
of
fairies
visited
a
wood
near
Aix
and
carried
off
the
daughter
of
a
peasant
who
had
been
seen
to
enter
it
with
a
bundle
of
clothing
The
son
of
a
wealthy
bourgeois
disappeared
about
the
same
time
but
afterward
returned
He
had
seen
the
abduction
been
in
pursuit
of
the
fairies
Justinian
Gaux
a
writer
of
the
fourteenth
century
avers
that
so
great
is
the
fairies
power
of
transformation
that
he
saw
one
change
itself
into
two
opposing
armies
and
fight
a
battle
with
great
slaughter
and
that
the
next
day
after
it
had
resumed
its
original
shape
and
gone
away
there
were
seven
hundred
bodies
of
the
slain
which
the
villagers
had
to
bury
He
does
not
say
if
any
of
the
wounded
recovered
In
the
time
of
Henry
III
of
England
a
law
was
made
which
prescribed
the
death
penalty
for
Kyllynge
wowndynge
or
mamynge
a
fairy
and
it
was
universally
respected
FAITH
n
Belief
without
evidence
in
what
is
told
by
one
who
speaks
without
knowledge
of
things
without
parallel
FAMOUS
adj
Conspicuously
miserable
Done
to
a
turn
on
the
iron
behold
Him
who
to
be
famous
aspired
Content
Well
his
grill
has
a
plating
of
gold
And
his
twistings
are
greatly
admired
Hassan
Brubuddy
FASHION
n
A
despot
whom
the
wise
ridicule
and
obey
A
king
there
was
who
lost
an
eye
In
some
excess
of
passion
And
straight
his
courtiers
all
did
try
To
follow
the
new
fashion
Each
dropped
one
eyelid
when
before
The
throne
he
ventured
thinking
Twould
please
the
king
That
monarch
swore
He
d
slay
them
all
for
winking
What
should
they
do
They
were
not
hot
To
hazard
such
disaster
They
dared
not
close
an
eye
dared
not
See
better
than
their
master
Seeing
them
lacrymose
and
glum
A
leech
consoled
the
weepers
He
spread
small
rags
with
liquid
gum
And
covered
half
their
peepers
The
court
all
wore
the
stuff
the
flame
Of
royal
anger
dying
That
s
how
court
plaster
got
its
name
Unless
I
m
greatly
lying
Naramy
Oof
FEAST
n
A
festival
A
religious
celebration
usually
signalized
by
gluttony
and
drunkenness
frequently
in
honor
of
some
holy
person
distinguished
for
abstemiousness
In
the
Roman
Catholic
Church
feasts
are
movable
and
immovable
but
the
celebrants
are
uniformly
immovable
until
they
are
full
In
their
earliest
development
these
entertainments
took
the
form
of
feasts
for
the
dead
such
were
held
by
the
Greeks
under
the
name
Nemeseia
by
the
Aztecs
and
Peruvians
as
in
modern
times
they
are
popular
with
the
Chinese
though
it
is
believed
that
the
ancient
dead
like
the
modern
were
light
eaters
Among
the
many
feasts
of
the
Romans
was
the
Novemdiale
which
was
held
according
to
Livy
whenever
stones
fell
from
heaven
FELON
n
A
person
of
greater
enterprise
than
discretion
who
in
embracing
an
opportunity
has
formed
an
unfortunate
attachment
FEMALE
n
One
of
the
opposing
or
unfair
sex
The
Maker
at
Creation
s
birth
With
living
things
had
stocked
the
earth
From
elephants
to
bats
and
snails
They
all
were
good
for
all
were
males
But
when
the
Devil
came
and
saw
He
said
By
Thine
eternal
law
Of
growth
maturity
decay
These
all
must
quickly
pass
away
And
leave
untenanted
the
earth
Unless
Thou
dost
establish
birth
Then
tucked
his
head
beneath
his
wing
To
laugh
he
had
no
sleeve
the
thing
With
deviltry
did
so
accord
That
he
d
suggested
to
the
Lord
The
Master
pondered
this
advice
Then
shook
and
threw
the
fateful
dice
Wherewith
all
matters
here
below
Are
ordered
and
observed
the
throw
Then
bent
His
head
in
awful
state
Confirming
the
decree
of
Fate
From
every
part
of
earth
anew
The
conscious
dust
consenting
flew
While
rivers
from
their
courses
rolled
To
make
it
plastic
for
the
mould
Enough
collected
but
no
more
For
niggard
Nature
hoards
her
store
He
kneaded
it
to
flexible
clay
While
Nick
unseen
threw
some
away
And
then
the
various
forms
He
cast
Gross
organs
first
and
finer
last
No
one
at
once
evolved
but
all
By
even
touches
grew
and
small
Degrees
advanced
till
shade
by
shade
To
match
all
living
things
He
d
made
Females
complete
in
all
their
parts
Except
His
clay
gave
out
the
hearts
No
matter
Satan
cried
with
speed
I
ll
fetch
the
very
hearts
they
need
So
flew
away
and
soon
brought
back
The
number
needed
in
a
sack
That
night
earth
range
with
sounds
of
strife
Ten
million
males
each
had
a
wife
That
night
sweet
Peace
her
pinions
spread
O
er
Hell
ten
million
devils
dead
G
J
FIB
n
A
lie
that
has
not
cut
its
teeth
An
habitual
liar
s
nearest
approach
to
truth
the
perigee
of
his
eccentric
orbit
When
David
said
All
men
are
liars
Dave
Himself
a
liar
fibbed
like
any
thief
Perhaps
he
thought
to
weaken
disbelief
By
proof
that
even
himself
was
not
a
slave
To
Truth
though
I
suspect
the
aged
knave
Had
been
of
all
her
servitors
the
chief
Had
he
but
known
a
fig
s
reluctant
leaf
Is
more
than
e
er
she
wore
on
land
or
wave
No
David
served
not
Naked
Truth
when
he
Struck
that
sledge
hammer
blow
at
all
his
race
Nor
did
he
hit
the
nail
upon
the
head
For
reason
shows
that
it
could
never
be
And
the
facts
contradict
him
to
his
face
Men
are
not
liars
all
for
some
are
dead
Bartle
Quinker
FICKLENESS
n
The
iterated
satiety
of
an
enterprising
affection
FIDDLE
n
An
instrument
to
tickle
human
ears
by
friction
of
a
horse
s
tail
on
the
entrails
of
a
cat
To
Rome
said
Nero
If
to
smoke
you
turn
I
shall
not
cease
to
fiddle
while
you
burn
To
Nero
Rome
replied
Pray
do
your
worst
Tis
my
excuse
that
you
were
fiddling
first
Orm
Pludge
FIDELITY
n
A
virtue
peculiar
to
those
who
are
about
to
be
betrayed
FINANCE
n
The
art
or
science
of
managing
revenues
and
resources
for
the
best
advantage
of
the
manager
The
pronunciation
of
this
word
with
the
i
long
and
the
accent
on
the
first
syllable
is
one
of
America
s
most
precious
discoveries
and
possessions
FLAG
n
A
colored
rag
borne
above
troops
and
hoisted
on
forts
and
ships
It
appears
to
serve
the
same
purpose
as
certain
signs
that
one
sees
and
vacant
lots
in
London
Rubbish
may
be
shot
here
FLESH
n
The
Second
Person
of
the
secular
Trinity
FLOP
v
Suddenly
to
change
one
s
opinions
and
go
over
to
another
party
The
most
notable
flop
on
record
was
that
of
Saul
of
Tarsus
who
has
been
severely
criticised
as
a
turn
coat
by
some
of
our
partisan
journals
FLY
SPECK
n
The
prototype
of
punctuation
It
is
observed
by
Garvinus
that
the
systems
of
punctuation
in
use
by
the
various
literary
nations
depended
originally
upon
the
social
habits
and
general
diet
of
the
flies
infesting
the
several
countries
These
creatures
which
have
always
been
distinguished
for
a
neighborly
and
companionable
familiarity
with
authors
liberally
or
niggardly
embellish
the
manuscripts
in
process
of
growth
under
the
pen
according
to
their
bodily
habit
bringing
out
the
sense
of
the
work
by
a
species
of
interpretation
superior
to
and
independent
of
the
writer
s
powers
The
old
masters
of
literature
that
is
to
say
the
early
writers
whose
work
is
so
esteemed
by
later
scribes
and
critics
in
the
same
language
never
punctuated
at
all
but
worked
right
along
free
handed
without
that
abruption
of
the
thought
which
comes
from
the
use
of
points
We
observe
the
same
thing
in
children
to
day
whose
usage
in
this
particular
is
a
striking
and
beautiful
instance
of
the
law
that
the
infancy
of
individuals
reproduces
the
methods
and
stages
of
development
characterizing
the
infancy
of
races
In
the
work
of
these
primitive
scribes
all
the
punctuation
is
found
by
the
modern
investigator
with
his
optical
instruments
and
chemical
tests
to
have
been
inserted
by
the
writers
ingenious
and
serviceable
collaborator
the
common
house
fly
Musca
maledicta
In
transcribing
these
ancient
MSS
for
the
purpose
of
either
making
the
work
their
own
or
preserving
what
they
naturally
regard
as
divine
revelations
later
writers
reverently
and
accurately
copy
whatever
marks
they
find
upon
the
papyrus
or
parchment
to
the
unspeakable
enhancement
of
the
lucidity
of
the
thought
and
value
of
the
work
Writers
contemporary
with
the
copyists
naturally
avail
themselves
of
the
obvious
advantages
of
these
marks
in
their
own
work
and
with
such
assistance
as
the
flies
of
their
own
household
may
be
willing
to
grant
frequently
rival
and
sometimes
surpass
the
older
compositions
in
respect
at
least
of
punctuation
which
is
no
small
glory
Fully
to
understand
the
important
services
that
flies
perform
to
literature
it
is
only
necessary
to
lay
a
page
of
some
popular
novelist
alongside
a
saucer
of
cream
and
molasses
in
a
sunny
room
and
observe
how
the
wit
brightens
and
the
style
refines
in
accurate
proportion
to
the
duration
of
exposure
FOLLY
n
That
gift
and
faculty
divine
whose
creative
and
controlling
energy
inspires
Man
s
mind
guides
his
actions
and
adorns
his
life
Folly
although
Erasmus
praised
thee
once
In
a
thick
volume
and
all
authors
known
If
not
thy
glory
yet
thy
power
have
shown
Deign
to
take
homage
from
thy
son
who
hunts
Through
all
thy
maze
his
brothers
fool
and
dunce
To
mend
their
lives
and
to
sustain
his
own
However
feebly
be
his
arrows
thrown
Howe
er
each
hide
the
flying
weapons
blunts
All
Father
Folly
be
it
mine
to
raise
With
lusty
lung
here
on
his
western
strand
With
all
thine
offspring
thronged
from
every
land
Thyself
inspiring
me
the
song
of
praise
And
if
too
weak
I
ll
hire
to
help
me
bawl
Dick
Watson
Gilder
gravest
of
us
all
Aramis
Loto
Frope
FOOL
n
A
person
who
pervades
the
domain
of
intellectual
speculation
and
diffuses
himself
through
the
channels
of
moral
activity
He
is
omnific
omniform
omnipercipient
omniscience
omnipotent
He
it
was
who
invented
letters
printing
the
railroad
the
steamboat
the
telegraph
the
platitude
and
the
circle
of
the
sciences
He
created
patriotism
and
taught
the
nations
war
founded
theology
philosophy
law
medicine
and
Chicago
He
established
monarchical
and
republican
government
He
is
from
everlasting
to
everlasting
such
as
creation
s
dawn
beheld
he
fooleth
now
In
the
morning
of
time
he
sang
upon
primitive
hills
and
in
the
noonday
of
existence
headed
the
procession
of
being
His
grandmotherly
hand
was
warmly
tucked
in
the
set
sun
of
civilization
and
in
the
twilight
he
prepares
Man
s
evening
meal
of
milk
and
morality
and
turns
down
the
covers
of
the
universal
grave
And
after
the
rest
of
us
shall
have
retired
for
the
night
of
eternal
oblivion
he
will
sit
up
to
write
a
history
of
human
civilization
FORCE
n
Force
is
but
might
the
teacher
said
That
definition
s
just
The
boy
said
naught
but
through
instead
Remembering
his
pounded
head
Force
is
not
might
but
must
FOREFINGER
n
The
finger
commonly
used
in
pointing
out
two
malefactors
FOREORDINATION
n
This
looks
like
an
easy
word
to
define
but
when
I
consider
that
pious
and
learned
theologians
have
spent
long
lives
in
explaining
it
and
written
libraries
to
explain
their
explanations
when
I
remember
the
nations
have
been
divided
and
bloody
battles
caused
by
the
difference
between
foreordination
and
predestination
and
that
millions
of
treasure
have
been
expended
in
the
effort
to
prove
and
disprove
its
compatibility
with
freedom
of
the
will
and
the
efficacy
of
prayer
praise
and
a
religious
life
recalling
these
awful
facts
in
the
history
of
the
word
I
stand
appalled
before
the
mighty
problem
of
its
signification
abase
my
spiritual
eyes
fearing
to
contemplate
its
portentous
magnitude
reverently
uncover
and
humbly
refer
it
to
His
Eminence
Cardinal
Gibbons
and
His
Grace
Bishop
Potter
FORGETFULNESS
n
A
gift
of
God
bestowed
upon
doctors
in
compensation
for
their
destitution
of
conscience
FORK
n
An
instrument
used
chiefly
for
the
purpose
of
putting
dead
animals
into
the
mouth
Formerly
the
knife
was
employed
for
this
purpose
and
by
many
worthy
persons
is
still
thought
to
have
many
advantages
over
the
other
tool
which
however
they
do
not
altogether
reject
but
use
to
assist
in
charging
the
knife
The
immunity
of
these
persons
from
swift
and
awful
death
is
one
of
the
most
striking
proofs
of
God
s
mercy
to
those
that
hate
Him
FORMA
PAUPERIS
Latin
In
the
character
of
a
poor
person
a
method
by
which
a
litigant
without
money
for
lawyers
is
considerately
permitted
to
lose
his
case
When
Adam
long
ago
in
Cupid
s
awful
court
For
Cupid
ruled
ere
Adam
was
invented
Sued
for
Eve
s
favor
says
an
ancient
law
report
He
stood
and
pleaded
unhabilimented
You
sue
in
forma
pauperis
I
see
Eve
cried
Actions
can
t
here
be
that
way
prosecuted
So
all
poor
Adam
s
motions
coldly
were
denied
He
went
away
as
he
had
come
nonsuited
G
J
FRANKALMOIGNE
n
The
tenure
by
which
a
religious
corporation
holds
lands
on
condition
of
praying
for
the
soul
of
the
donor
In
mediaeval
times
many
of
the
wealthiest
fraternities
obtained
their
estates
in
this
simple
and
cheap
manner
and
once
when
Henry
VIII
of
England
sent
an
officer
to
confiscate
certain
vast
possessions
which
a
fraternity
of
monks
held
by
frankalmoigne
What
said
the
Prior
would
you
master
stay
our
benefactor
s
soul
in
Purgatory
Ay
said
the
officer
coldly
an
ye
will
not
pray
him
thence
for
naught
he
must
e
en
roast
But
look
you
my
son
persisted
the
good
man
this
act
hath
rank
as
robbery
of
God
Nay
nay
good
father
my
master
the
king
doth
but
deliver
him
from
the
manifold
temptations
of
too
great
wealth
FREEBOOTER
n
A
conqueror
in
a
small
way
of
business
whose
annexations
lack
of
the
sanctifying
merit
of
magnitude
FREEDOM
n
Exemption
from
the
stress
of
authority
in
a
beggarly
half
dozen
of
restraint
s
infinite
multitude
of
methods
A
political
condition
that
every
nation
supposes
itself
to
enjoy
in
virtual
monopoly
Liberty
The
distinction
between
freedom
and
liberty
is
not
accurately
known
naturalists
have
never
been
able
to
find
a
living
specimen
of
either
Freedom
as
every
schoolboy
knows
Once
shrieked
as
Kosciusko
fell
On
every
wind
indeed
that
blows
I
hear
her
yell
She
screams
whenever
monarchs
meet
And
parliaments
as
well
To
bind
the
chains
about
her
feet
And
toll
her
knell
And
when
the
sovereign
people
cast
The
votes
they
cannot
spell
Upon
the
pestilential
blast
Her
clamors
swell
For
all
to
whom
the
power
s
given
To
sway
or
to
compel
Among
themselves
apportion
Heaven
And
give
her
Hell
Blary
O
Gary
FREEMASONS
n
An
order
with
secret
rites
grotesque
ceremonies
and
fantastic
costumes
which
originating
in
the
reign
of
Charles
II
among
working
artisans
of
London
has
been
joined
successively
by
the
dead
of
past
centuries
in
unbroken
retrogression
until
now
it
embraces
all
the
generations
of
man
on
the
hither
side
of
Adam
and
is
drumming
up
distinguished
recruits
among
the
pre
Creational
inhabitants
of
Chaos
and
Formless
Void
The
order
was
founded
at
different
times
by
Charlemagne
Julius
Caesar
Cyrus
Solomon
Zoroaster
Confucious
Thothmes
and
Buddha
Its
emblems
and
symbols
have
been
found
in
the
Catacombs
of
Paris
and
Rome
on
the
stones
of
the
Parthenon
and
the
Chinese
Great
Wall
among
the
temples
of
Karnak
and
Palmyra
and
in
the
Egyptian
Pyramids
always
by
a
Freemason
FRIENDLESS
adj
Having
no
favors
to
bestow
Destitute
of
fortune
Addicted
to
utterance
of
truth
and
common
sense
FRIENDSHIP
n
A
ship
big
enough
to
carry
two
in
fair
weather
but
only
one
in
foul
The
sea
was
calm
and
the
sky
was
blue
Merrily
merrily
sailed
we
two
High
barometer
maketh
glad
On
the
tipsy
ship
with
a
dreadful
shout
The
tempest
descended
and
we
fell
out
O
the
walking
is
nasty
bad
Armit
Huff
Bettle
FROG
n
A
reptile
with
edible
legs
The
first
mention
of
frogs
in
profane
literature
is
in
Homer
s
narrative
of
the
war
between
them
and
the
mice
Skeptical
persons
have
doubted
Homer
s
authorship
of
the
work
but
the
learned
ingenious
and
industrious
Dr
Schliemann
has
set
the
question
forever
at
rest
by
uncovering
the
bones
of
the
slain
frogs
One
of
the
forms
of
moral
suasion
by
which
Pharaoh
was
besought
to
favor
the
Israelities
was
a
plague
of
frogs
but
Pharaoh
who
liked
them
fricasees
remarked
with
truly
oriental
stoicism
that
he
could
stand
it
as
long
as
the
frogs
and
the
Jews
could
so
the
programme
was
changed
The
frog
is
a
diligent
songster
having
a
good
voice
but
no
ear
The
libretto
of
his
favorite
opera
as
written
by
Aristophanes
is
brief
simple
and
effective
brekekex
koax
the
music
is
apparently
by
that
eminent
composer
Richard
Wagner
Horses
have
a
frog
in
each
hoof
a
thoughtful
provision
of
nature
enabling
them
to
shine
in
a
hurdle
race
FRYING
PAN
n
One
part
of
the
penal
apparatus
employed
in
that
punitive
institution
a
woman
s
kitchen
The
frying
pan
was
invented
by
Calvin
and
by
him
used
in
cooking
span
long
infants
that
had
died
without
baptism
and
observing
one
day
the
horrible
torment
of
a
tramp
who
had
incautiously
pulled
a
fried
babe
from
the
waste
dump
and
devoured
it
it
occurred
to
the
great
divine
to
rob
death
of
its
terrors
by
introducing
the
frying
pan
into
every
household
in
Geneva
Thence
it
spread
to
all
corners
of
the
world
and
has
been
of
invaluable
assistance
in
the
propagation
of
his
sombre
faith
The
following
lines
said
to
be
from
the
pen
of
his
Grace
Bishop
Potter
seem
to
imply
that
the
usefulness
of
this
utensil
is
not
limited
to
this
world
but
as
the
consequences
of
its
employment
in
this
life
reach
over
into
the
life
to
come
so
also
itself
may
be
found
on
the
other
side
rewarding
its
devotees
Old
Nick
was
summoned
to
the
skies
Said
Peter
Your
intentions
Are
good
but
you
lack
enterprise
Concerning
new
inventions
Now
broiling
in
an
ancient
plan
Of
torment
but
I
hear
it
Reported
that
the
frying
pan
Sears
best
the
wicked
spirit
Go
get
one
fill
it
up
with
fat
Fry
sinners
brown
and
good
in
t
I
know
a
trick
worth
two
o
that
Said
Nick
I
ll
cook
their
food
in
t
FUNERAL
n
A
pageant
whereby
we
attest
our
respect
for
the
dead
by
enriching
the
undertaker
and
strengthen
our
grief
by
an
expenditure
that
deepens
our
groans
and
doubles
our
tears
The
savage
dies
they
sacrifice
a
horse
To
bear
to
happy
hunting
grounds
the
corse
Our
friends
expire
we
make
the
money
fly
In
hope
their
souls
will
chase
it
to
the
sky
Jex
Wopley
FUTURE
n
That
period
of
time
in
which
our
affairs
prosper
our
friends
are
true
and
our
happiness
is
assured
G
GALLOWS
n
A
stage
for
the
performance
of
miracle
plays
in
which
the
leading
actor
is
translated
to
heaven
In
this
country
the
gallows
is
chiefly
remarkable
for
the
number
of
persons
who
escape
it
Whether
on
the
gallows
high
Or
where
blood
flows
the
reddest
The
noblest
place
for
man
to
die
Is
where
he
died
the
deadest
Old
play
GARGOYLE
n
A
rain
spout
projecting
from
the
eaves
of
mediaeval
buildings
commonly
fashioned
into
a
grotesque
caricature
of
some
personal
enemy
of
the
architect
or
owner
of
the
building
This
was
especially
the
case
in
churches
and
ecclesiastical
structures
generally
in
which
the
gargoyles
presented
a
perfect
rogues
gallery
of
local
heretics
and
controversialists
Sometimes
when
a
new
dean
and
chapter
were
installed
the
old
gargoyles
were
removed
and
others
substituted
having
a
closer
relation
to
the
private
animosities
of
the
new
incumbents
GARTHER
n
An
elastic
band
intended
to
keep
a
woman
from
coming
out
of
her
stockings
and
desolating
the
country
GENEROUS
adj
Originally
this
word
meant
noble
by
birth
and
was
rightly
applied
to
a
great
multitude
of
persons
It
now
means
noble
by
nature
and
is
taking
a
bit
of
a
rest
GENEALOGY
n
An
account
of
one
s
descent
from
an
ancestor
who
did
not
particularly
care
to
trace
his
own
GENTEEL
adj
Refined
after
the
fashion
of
a
gent
Observe
with
care
my
son
the
distinction
I
reveal
A
gentleman
is
gentle
and
a
gent
genteel
Heed
not
the
definitions
your
Unabridged
presents
For
dictionary
makers
are
generally
gents
G
J
GEOGRAPHER
n
A
chap
who
can
tell
you
offhand
the
difference
between
the
outside
of
the
world
and
the
inside
Habeam
geographer
of
wide
reknown
Native
of
Abu
Keber
s
ancient
town
In
passing
thence
along
the
river
Zam
To
the
adjacent
village
of
Xelam
Bewildered
by
the
multitude
of
roads
Got
lost
lived
long
on
migratory
toads
Then
from
exposure
miserably
died
And
grateful
travelers
bewailed
their
guide
Henry
Haukhorn
GEOLOGY
n
The
science
of
the
earth
s
crust
to
which
doubtless
will
be
added
that
of
its
interior
whenever
a
man
shall
come
up
garrulous
out
of
a
well
The
geological
formations
of
the
globe
already
noted
are
catalogued
thus
The
Primary
or
lower
one
consists
of
rocks
bones
or
mired
mules
gas
pipes
miners
tools
antique
statues
minus
the
nose
Spanish
doubloons
and
ancestors
The
Secondary
is
largely
made
up
of
red
worms
and
moles
The
Tertiary
comprises
railway
tracks
patent
pavements
grass
snakes
mouldy
boots
beer
bottles
tomato
cans
intoxicated
citizens
garbage
anarchists
snap
dogs
and
fools
GHOST
n
The
outward
and
visible
sign
of
an
inward
fear
He
saw
a
ghost
It
occupied
that
dismal
thing
The
path
that
he
was
following
Before
he
d
time
to
stop
and
fly
An
earthquake
trifled
with
the
eye
That
saw
a
ghost
He
fell
as
fall
the
early
good
Unmoved
that
awful
vision
stood
The
stars
that
danced
before
his
ken
He
wildly
brushed
away
and
then
He
saw
a
post
Jared
Macphester
Accounting
for
the
uncommon
behavior
of
ghosts
Heine
mentions
somebody
s
ingenious
theory
to
the
effect
that
they
are
as
much
afraid
of
us
as
we
of
them
Not
quite
if
I
may
judge
from
such
tables
of
comparative
speed
as
I
am
able
to
compile
from
memories
of
my
own
experience
There
is
one
insuperable
obstacle
to
a
belief
in
ghosts
A
ghost
never
comes
naked
he
appears
either
in
a
winding
sheet
or
in
his
habit
as
he
lived
To
believe
in
him
then
is
to
believe
that
not
only
have
the
dead
the
power
to
make
themselves
visible
after
there
is
nothing
left
of
them
but
that
the
same
power
inheres
in
textile
fabrics
Supposing
the
products
of
the
loom
to
have
this
ability
what
object
would
they
have
in
exercising
it
And
why
does
not
the
apparition
of
a
suit
of
clothes
sometimes
walk
abroad
without
a
ghost
in
it
These
be
riddles
of
significance
They
reach
away
down
and
get
a
convulsive
grip
on
the
very
tap
root
of
this
flourishing
faith
GHOUL
n
A
demon
addicted
to
the
reprehensible
habit
of
devouring
the
dead
The
existence
of
ghouls
has
been
disputed
by
that
class
of
controversialists
who
are
more
concerned
to
deprive
the
world
of
comforting
beliefs
than
to
give
it
anything
good
in
their
place
In
Father
Secchi
saw
one
in
a
cemetery
near
Florence
and
frightened
it
away
with
the
sign
of
the
cross
He
describes
it
as
gifted
with
many
heads
an
an
uncommon
allowance
of
limbs
and
he
saw
it
in
more
than
one
place
at
a
time
The
good
man
was
coming
away
from
dinner
at
the
time
and
explains
that
if
he
had
not
been
heavy
with
eating
he
would
have
seized
the
demon
at
all
hazards
Atholston
relates
that
a
ghoul
was
caught
by
some
sturdy
peasants
in
a
churchyard
at
Sudbury
and
ducked
in
a
horsepond
He
appears
to
think
that
so
distinguished
a
criminal
should
have
been
ducked
in
a
tank
of
rosewater
The
water
turned
at
once
to
blood
and
so
contynues
unto
ys
daye
The
pond
has
since
been
bled
with
a
ditch
As
late
as
the
beginning
of
the
fourteenth
century
a
ghoul
was
cornered
in
the
crypt
of
the
cathedral
at
Amiens
and
the
whole
population
surrounded
the
place
Twenty
armed
men
with
a
priest
at
their
head
bearing
a
crucifix
entered
and
captured
the
ghoul
which
thinking
to
escape
by
the
stratagem
had
transformed
itself
to
the
semblance
of
a
well
known
citizen
but
was
nevertheless
hanged
drawn
and
quartered
in
the
midst
of
hideous
popular
orgies
The
citizen
whose
shape
the
demon
had
assumed
was
so
affected
by
the
sinister
occurrence
that
he
never
again
showed
himself
in
Amiens
and
his
fate
remains
a
mystery
GLUTTON
n
A
person
who
escapes
the
evils
of
moderation
by
committing
dyspepsia
GNOME
n
In
North
European
mythology
a
dwarfish
imp
inhabiting
the
interior
parts
of
the
earth
and
having
special
custody
of
mineral
treasures
Bjorsen
who
died
in
says
gnomes
were
common
enough
in
the
southern
parts
of
Sweden
in
his
boyhood
and
he
frequently
saw
them
scampering
on
the
hills
in
the
evening
twilight
Ludwig
Binkerhoof
saw
three
as
recently
as
in
the
Black
Forest
and
Sneddeker
avers
that
in
they
drove
a
party
of
miners
out
of
a
Silesian
mine
Basing
our
computations
upon
data
supplied
by
these
statements
we
find
that
the
gnomes
were
probably
extinct
as
early
as
GNOSTICS
n
A
sect
of
philosophers
who
tried
to
engineer
a
fusion
between
the
early
Christians
and
the
Platonists
The
former
would
not
go
into
the
caucus
and
the
combination
failed
greatly
to
the
chagrin
of
the
fusion
managers
GNU
n
An
animal
of
South
Africa
which
in
its
domesticated
state
resembles
a
horse
a
buffalo
and
a
stag
In
its
wild
condition
it
is
something
like
a
thunderbolt
an
earthquake
and
a
cyclone
A
hunter
from
Kew
caught
a
distant
view
Of
a
peacefully
meditative
gnu
And
he
said
I
ll
pursue
and
my
hands
imbrue
In
its
blood
at
a
closer
interview
But
that
beast
did
ensue
and
the
hunter
it
threw
O
er
the
top
of
a
palm
that
adjacent
grew
And
he
said
as
he
flew
It
is
well
I
withdrew
Ere
losing
my
temper
I
wickedly
slew
That
really
meritorious
gnu
Jarn
Leffer
GOOD
adj
Sensible
madam
to
the
worth
of
this
present
writer
Alive
sir
to
the
advantages
of
letting
him
alone
GOOSE
n
A
bird
that
supplies
quills
for
writing
These
by
some
occult
process
of
nature
are
penetrated
and
suffused
with
various
degrees
of
the
bird
s
intellectual
energies
and
emotional
character
so
that
when
inked
and
drawn
mechanically
across
paper
by
a
person
called
an
author
there
results
a
very
fair
and
accurate
transcript
of
the
fowl
s
thought
and
feeling
The
difference
in
geese
as
discovered
by
this
ingenious
method
is
considerable
many
are
found
to
have
only
trivial
and
insignificant
powers
but
some
are
seen
to
be
very
great
geese
indeed
GORGON
n
The
Gorgon
was
a
maiden
bold
Who
turned
to
stone
the
Greeks
of
old
That
looked
upon
her
awful
brow
We
dig
them
out
of
ruins
now
And
swear
that
workmanship
so
bad
Proves
all
the
ancient
sculptors
mad
GOUT
n
A
physician
s
name
for
the
rheumatism
of
a
rich
patient
GRACES
n
Three
beautiful
goddesses
Aglaia
Thalia
and
Euphrosyne
who
attended
upon
Venus
serving
without
salary
They
were
at
no
expense
for
board
and
clothing
for
they
ate
nothing
to
speak
of
and
dressed
according
to
the
weather
wearing
whatever
breeze
happened
to
be
blowing
GRAMMAR
n
A
system
of
pitfalls
thoughtfully
prepared
for
the
feet
for
the
self
made
man
along
the
path
by
which
he
advances
to
distinction
GRAPE
n
Hail
noble
fruit
by
Homer
sung
Anacreon
and
Khayyam
Thy
praise
is
ever
on
the
tongue
Of
better
men
than
I
am
The
lyre
in
my
hand
has
never
swept
The
song
I
cannot
offer
My
humbler
service
pray
accept
I
ll
help
to
kill
the
scoffer
The
water
drinkers
and
the
cranks
Who
load
their
skins
with
liquor
I
ll
gladly
bear
their
belly
tanks
And
tap
them
with
my
sticker
Fill
up
fill
up
for
wisdom
cools
When
e
er
we
let
the
wine
rest
Here
s
death
to
Prohibition
s
fools
And
every
kind
of
vine
pest
Jamrach
Holobom
GRAPESHOT
n
An
argument
which
the
future
is
preparing
in
answer
to
the
demands
of
American
Socialism
GRAVE
n
A
place
in
which
the
dead
are
laid
to
await
the
coming
of
the
medical
student
Beside
a
lonely
grave
I
stood
With
brambles
twas
encumbered
The
winds
were
moaning
in
the
wood
Unheard
by
him
who
slumbered
A
rustic
standing
near
I
said
He
cannot
hear
it
blowing
Course
not
said
he
the
feller
s
dead
He
can
t
hear
nowt
sic
that
s
going
Too
true
I
said
alas
too
true
No
sound
his
sense
can
quicken
Well
mister
wot
is
that
to
you
The
deadster
ain
t
a
kickin
I
knelt
and
prayed
O
Father
smile
On
him
and
mercy
show
him
That
countryman
looked
on
the
while
And
said
Ye
didn
t
know
him
Pobeter
Dunko
GRAVITATION
n
The
tendency
of
all
bodies
to
approach
one
another
with
a
strength
proportion
to
the
quantity
of
matter
they
contain
the
quantity
of
matter
they
contain
being
ascertained
by
the
strength
of
their
tendency
to
approach
one
another
This
is
a
lovely
and
edifying
illustration
of
how
science
having
made
A
the
proof
of
B
makes
B
the
proof
of
A
GREAT
adj
I
m
great
the
Lion
said
I
reign
The
monarch
of
the
wood
and
plain
The
Elephant
replied
I
m
great
No
quadruped
can
match
my
weight
I
m
great
no
animal
has
half
So
long
a
neck
said
the
Giraffe
I
m
great
the
Kangaroo
said
see
My
femoral
muscularity
The
Possum
said
I
m
great
behold
My
tail
is
lithe
and
bald
and
cold
An
Oyster
fried
was
understood
To
say
I
m
great
because
I
m
good
Each
reckons
greatness
to
consist
In
that
in
which
he
heads
the
list
And
Vierick
thinks
he
tops
his
class
Because
he
is
the
greatest
ass
Arion
Spurl
Doke
GUILLOTINE
n
A
machine
which
makes
a
Frenchman
shrug
his
shoulders
with
good
reason
In
his
great
work
on
Divergent
Lines
of
Racial
Evolution
the
learned
Professor
Brayfugle
argues
from
the
prevalence
of
this
gesture
the
shrug
among
Frenchmen
that
they
are
descended
from
turtles
and
it
is
simply
a
survival
of
the
habit
of
retracing
the
head
inside
the
shell
It
is
with
reluctance
that
I
differ
with
so
eminent
an
authority
but
in
my
judgment
as
more
elaborately
set
forth
and
enforced
in
my
work
entitled
Hereditary
Emotions
lib
II
c
XI
the
shrug
is
a
poor
foundation
upon
which
to
build
so
important
a
theory
for
previously
to
the
Revolution
the
gesture
was
unknown
I
have
not
a
doubt
that
it
is
directly
referable
to
the
terror
inspired
by
the
guillotine
during
the
period
of
that
instrument
s
activity
GUNPOWDER
n
An
agency
employed
by
civilized
nations
for
the
settlement
of
disputes
which
might
become
troublesome
if
left
unadjusted
By
most
writers
the
invention
of
gunpowder
is
ascribed
to
the
Chinese
but
not
upon
very
convincing
evidence
Milton
says
it
was
invented
by
the
devil
to
dispel
angels
with
and
this
opinion
seems
to
derive
some
support
from
the
scarcity
of
angels
Moreover
it
has
the
hearty
concurrence
of
the
Hon
James
Wilson
Secretary
of
Agriculture
Secretary
Wilson
became
interested
in
gunpowder
through
an
event
that
occurred
on
the
Government
experimental
farm
in
the
District
of
Columbia
One
day
several
years
ago
a
rogue
imperfectly
reverent
of
the
Secretary
s
profound
attainments
and
personal
character
presented
him
with
a
sack
of
gunpowder
representing
it
as
the
sed
of
the
Flashawful
flabbergastor
a
Patagonian
cereal
of
great
commercial
value
admirably
adapted
to
this
climate
The
good
Secretary
was
instructed
to
spill
it
along
in
a
furrow
and
afterward
inhume
it
with
soil
This
he
at
once
proceeded
to
do
and
had
made
a
continuous
line
of
it
all
the
way
across
a
ten
acre
field
when
he
was
made
to
look
backward
by
a
shout
from
the
generous
donor
who
at
once
dropped
a
lighted
match
into
the
furrow
at
the
starting
point
Contact
with
the
earth
had
somewhat
dampened
the
powder
but
the
startled
functionary
saw
himself
pursued
by
a
tall
moving
pillar
of
fire
and
smoke
and
fierce
evolution
He
stood
for
a
moment
paralyzed
and
speechless
then
he
recollected
an
engagement
and
dropping
all
absented
himself
thence
with
such
surprising
celerity
that
to
the
eyes
of
spectators
along
the
route
selected
he
appeared
like
a
long
dim
streak
prolonging
itself
with
inconceivable
rapidity
through
seven
villages
and
audibly
refusing
to
be
comforted
Great
Scott
what
is
that
cried
a
surveyor
s
chainman
shading
his
eyes
and
gazing
at
the
fading
line
of
agriculturist
which
bisected
his
visible
horizon
That
said
the
surveyor
carelessly
glancing
at
the
phenomenon
and
again
centering
his
attention
upon
his
instrument
is
the
Meridian
of
Washington
H
HABEAS
CORPUS
A
writ
by
which
a
man
may
be
taken
out
of
jail
when
confined
for
the
wrong
crime
HABIT
n
A
shackle
for
the
free
HADES
n
The
lower
world
the
residence
of
departed
spirits
the
place
where
the
dead
live
Among
the
ancients
the
idea
of
Hades
was
not
synonymous
with
our
Hell
many
of
the
most
respectable
men
of
antiquity
residing
there
in
a
very
comfortable
kind
of
way
Indeed
the
Elysian
Fields
themselves
were
a
part
of
Hades
though
they
have
since
been
removed
to
Paris
When
the
Jacobean
version
of
the
New
Testament
was
in
process
of
evolution
the
pious
and
learned
men
engaged
in
the
work
insisted
by
a
majority
vote
on
translating
the
Greek
word
Aides
as
Hell
but
a
conscientious
minority
member
secretly
possessed
himself
of
the
record
and
struck
out
the
objectional
word
wherever
he
could
find
it
At
the
next
meeting
the
Bishop
of
Salisbury
looking
over
the
work
suddenly
sprang
to
his
feet
and
said
with
considerable
excitement
Gentlemen
somebody
has
been
razing
Hell
here
Years
afterward
the
good
prelate
s
death
was
made
sweet
by
the
reflection
that
he
had
been
the
means
under
Providence
of
making
an
important
serviceable
and
immortal
addition
to
the
phraseology
of
the
English
tongue
HAG
n
An
elderly
lady
whom
you
do
not
happen
to
like
sometimes
called
also
a
hen
or
cat
Old
witches
sorceresses
etc
were
called
hags
from
the
belief
that
their
heads
were
surrounded
by
a
kind
of
baleful
lumination
or
nimbus
hag
being
the
popular
name
of
that
peculiar
electrical
light
sometimes
observed
in
the
hair
At
one
time
hag
was
not
a
word
of
reproach
Drayton
speaks
of
a
beautiful
hag
all
smiles
much
as
Shakespeare
said
sweet
wench
It
would
not
now
be
proper
to
call
your
sweetheart
a
hag
that
compliment
is
reserved
for
the
use
of
her
grandchildren
HALF
n
One
of
two
equal
parts
into
which
a
thing
may
be
divided
or
considered
as
divided
In
the
fourteenth
century
a
heated
discussion
arose
among
theologists
and
philosophers
as
to
whether
Omniscience
could
part
an
object
into
three
halves
and
the
pious
Father
Aldrovinus
publicly
prayed
in
the
cathedral
at
Rouen
that
God
would
demonstrate
the
affirmative
of
the
proposition
in
some
signal
and
unmistakable
way
and
particularly
if
it
should
please
Him
upon
the
body
of
that
hardy
blasphemer
Manutius
Procinus
who
maintained
the
negative
Procinus
however
was
spared
to
die
of
the
bite
of
a
viper
HALO
n
Properly
a
luminous
ring
encircling
an
astronomical
body
but
not
infrequently
confounded
with
aureola
or
nimbus
a
somewhat
similar
phenomenon
worn
as
a
head
dress
by
divinities
and
saints
The
halo
is
a
purely
optical
illusion
produced
by
moisture
in
the
air
in
the
manner
of
a
rainbow
but
the
aureola
is
conferred
as
a
sign
of
superior
sanctity
in
the
same
way
as
a
bishop
s
mitre
or
the
Pope
s
tiara
In
the
painting
of
the
Nativity
by
Szedgkin
a
pious
artist
of
Pesth
not
only
do
the
Virgin
and
the
Child
wear
the
nimbus
but
an
ass
nibbling
hay
from
the
sacred
manger
is
similarly
decorated
and
to
his
lasting
honor
be
it
said
appears
to
bear
his
unaccustomed
dignity
with
a
truly
saintly
grace
HAND
n
A
singular
instrument
worn
at
the
end
of
the
human
arm
and
commonly
thrust
into
somebody
s
pocket
HANDKERCHIEF
n
A
small
square
of
silk
or
linen
used
in
various
ignoble
offices
about
the
face
and
especially
serviceable
at
funerals
to
conceal
the
lack
of
tears
The
handkerchief
is
of
recent
invention
our
ancestors
knew
nothing
of
it
and
intrusted
its
duties
to
the
sleeve
Shakespeare
s
introducing
it
into
the
play
of
Othello
is
an
anachronism
Desdemona
dried
her
nose
with
her
skirt
as
Dr
Mary
Walker
and
other
reformers
have
done
with
their
coattails
in
our
own
day
an
evidence
that
revolutions
sometimes
go
backward
HANGMAN
n
An
officer
of
the
law
charged
with
duties
of
the
highest
dignity
and
utmost
gravity
and
held
in
hereditary
disesteem
by
a
populace
having
a
criminal
ancestry
In
some
of
the
American
States
his
functions
are
now
performed
by
an
electrician
as
in
New
Jersey
where
executions
by
electricity
have
recently
been
ordered
the
first
instance
known
to
this
lexicographer
of
anybody
questioning
the
expediency
of
hanging
Jerseymen
HAPPINESS
n
An
agreeable
sensation
arising
from
contemplating
the
misery
of
another
HARANGUE
n
A
speech
by
an
opponent
who
is
known
as
an
harrangue
outang
HARBOR
n
A
place
where
ships
taking
shelter
from
stores
are
exposed
to
the
fury
of
the
customs
HARMONISTS
n
A
sect
of
Protestants
now
extinct
who
came
from
Europe
in
the
beginning
of
the
last
century
and
were
distinguished
for
the
bitterness
of
their
internal
controversies
and
dissensions
HASH
x
There
is
no
definition
for
this
word
nobody
knows
what
hash
is
HATCHET
n
A
young
axe
known
among
Indians
as
a
Thomashawk
O
bury
the
hatchet
irascible
Red
For
peace
is
a
blessing
the
White
Man
said
The
Savage
concurred
and
that
weapon
interred
With
imposing
rites
in
the
White
Man
s
head
John
Lukkus
HATRED
n
A
sentiment
appropriate
to
the
occasion
of
another
s
superiority
HEAD
MONEY
n
A
capitation
tax
or
poll
tax
In
ancient
times
there
lived
a
king
Whose
tax
collectors
could
not
wring
From
all
his
subjects
gold
enough
To
make
the
royal
way
less
rough
For
pleasure
s
highway
like
the
dames
Whose
premises
adjoin
it
claims
Perpetual
repairing
So
The
tax
collectors
in
a
row
Appeared
before
the
throne
to
pray
Their
master
to
devise
some
way
To
swell
the
revenue
So
great
Said
they
are
the
demands
of
state
A
tithe
of
all
that
we
collect
Will
scarcely
meet
them
Pray
reflect
How
if
one
tenth
we
must
resign
Can
we
exist
on
t
other
nine
The
monarch
asked
them
in
reply
Has
it
occurred
to
you
to
try
The
advantage
of
economy
It
has
the
spokesman
said
we
sold
All
of
our
gray
garrotes
of
gold
With
plated
ware
we
now
compress
The
necks
of
those
whom
we
assess
Plain
iron
forceps
we
employ
To
mitigate
the
miser
s
joy
Who
hoards
with
greed
that
never
tires
That
which
your
Majesty
requires
Deep
lines
of
thought
were
seen
to
plow
Their
way
across
the
royal
brow
Your
state
is
desperate
no
question
Pray
favor
me
with
a
suggestion
O
King
of
Men
the
spokesman
said
If
you
ll
impose
upon
each
head
A
tax
the
augmented
revenue
We
ll
cheerfully
divide
with
you
As
flashes
of
the
sun
illume
The
parted
storm
cloud
s
sullen
gloom
The
king
smiled
grimly
I
decree
That
it
be
so
and
not
to
be
In
generosity
outdone
Declare
you
each
and
every
one
Exempted
from
the
operation
Of
this
new
law
of
capitation
But
lest
the
people
censure
me
Because
they
re
bound
and
you
are
free
Twere
well
some
clever
scheme
were
laid
By
you
this
poll
tax
to
evade
I
ll
leave
you
now
while
you
confer
With
my
most
trusted
minister
The
monarch
from
the
throne
room
walked
And
straightway
in
among
them
stalked
A
silent
man
with
brow
concealed
Bare
armed
his
gleaming
axe
revealed
G
J
HEARSE
n
Death
s
baby
carriage
HEART
n
An
automatic
muscular
blood
pump
Figuratively
this
useful
organ
is
said
to
be
the
seat
of
emotions
and
sentiments
a
very
pretty
fancy
which
however
is
nothing
but
a
survival
of
a
once
universal
belief
It
is
now
known
that
the
sentiments
and
emotions
reside
in
the
stomach
being
evolved
from
food
by
chemical
action
of
the
gastric
fluid
The
exact
process
by
which
a
beefsteak
becomes
a
feeling
tender
or
not
according
to
the
age
of
the
animal
from
which
it
was
cut
the
successive
stages
of
elaboration
through
which
a
caviar
sandwich
is
transmuted
to
a
quaint
fancy
and
reappears
as
a
pungent
epigram
the
marvelous
functional
methods
of
converting
a
hard
boiled
egg
into
religious
contrition
or
a
cream
puff
into
a
sigh
of
sensibility
these
things
have
been
patiently
ascertained
by
M
Pasteur
and
by
him
expounded
with
convincing
lucidity
See
also
my
monograph
The
Essential
Identity
of
the
Spiritual
Affections
and
Certain
Intestinal
Gases
Freed
in
Digestion
to
pp
In
a
scientific
work
entitled
I
believe
Delectatio
Demonorum
John
Camden
Hotton
London
this
view
of
the
sentiments
receives
a
striking
illustration
and
for
further
light
consult
Professor
Dam
s
famous
treatise
on
Love
as
a
Product
of
Alimentary
Maceration
HEAT
n
Heat
says
Professor
Tyndall
is
a
mode
Of
motion
but
I
know
now
how
he
s
proving
His
point
but
this
I
know
hot
words
bestowed
With
skill
will
set
the
human
fist
a
moving
And
where
it
stops
the
stars
burn
free
and
wild
Crede
expertum
I
have
seen
them
child
Gorton
Swope
HEATHEN
n
A
benighted
creature
who
has
the
folly
to
worship
something
that
he
can
see
and
feel
According
to
Professor
Howison
of
the
California
State
University
Hebrews
are
heathens
The
Hebrews
are
heathens
says
Howison
He
s
A
Christian
philosopher
I
m
A
scurril
agnostical
chap
if
you
please
Addicted
too
much
to
the
crime
Of
religious
discussion
in
my
rhyme
Though
Hebrew
and
Howison
cannot
agree
On
a
modus
vivendi
not
they
Yet
Heaven
has
had
the
designing
of
me
And
I
haven
t
been
reared
in
a
way
To
joy
in
the
thick
of
the
fray
For
this
of
my
creed
is
the
soul
and
the
gist
And
the
truth
of
it
I
aver
Who
differs
from
me
in
his
faith
is
an
ist
And
ite
an
ie
or
an
er
And
I
m
down
upon
him
or
her
Let
Howison
urge
with
perfunctory
chin
Toleration
that
s
all
very
well
But
a
roast
is
nuts
to
his
nostril
thin
And
he
s
running
I
know
by
the
smell
A
secret
and
personal
Hell
Bissell
Gip
HEAVEN
n
A
place
where
the
wicked
cease
from
troubling
you
with
talk
of
their
personal
affairs
and
the
good
listen
with
attention
while
you
expound
your
own
HEBREW
n
A
male
Jew
as
distinguished
from
the
Shebrew
an
altogether
superior
creation
HELPMATE
n
A
wife
or
bitter
half
Now
why
is
yer
wife
called
a
helpmate
Pat
Says
the
priest
Since
the
time
o
yer
wooin
She
s
niver
sic
assisted
in
what
ye
were
at
For
it
s
naught
ye
are
ever
doin
That
s
true
of
yer
Riverence
sic
Patrick
replies
And
no
sign
of
contrition
envices
But
bedad
it
s
a
fact
which
the
word
implies
For
she
helps
to
mate
the
expinses
sic
Marley
Wottel
HEMP
n
A
plant
from
whose
fibrous
bark
is
made
an
article
of
neckwear
which
is
frequently
put
on
after
public
speaking
in
the
open
air
and
prevents
the
wearer
from
taking
cold
HERMIT
n
A
person
whose
vices
and
follies
are
not
sociable
HERS
pron
His
HIBERNATE
v
i
To
pass
the
winter
season
in
domestic
seclusion
There
have
been
many
singular
popular
notions
about
the
hibernation
of
various
animals
Many
believe
that
the
bear
hibernates
during
the
whole
winter
and
subsists
by
mechanically
sucking
its
paws
It
is
admitted
that
it
comes
out
of
its
retirement
in
the
spring
so
lean
that
it
had
to
try
twice
before
it
can
cast
a
shadow
Three
or
four
centuries
ago
in
England
no
fact
was
better
attested
than
that
swallows
passed
the
winter
months
in
the
mud
at
the
bottom
of
their
brooks
clinging
together
in
globular
masses
They
have
apparently
been
compelled
to
give
up
the
custom
and
account
of
the
foulness
of
the
brooks
Sotus
Ecobius
discovered
in
Central
Asia
a
whole
nation
of
people
who
hibernate
By
some
investigators
the
fasting
of
Lent
is
supposed
to
have
been
originally
a
modified
form
of
hibernation
to
which
the
Church
gave
a
religious
significance
but
this
view
was
strenuously
opposed
by
that
eminent
authority
Bishop
Kip
who
did
not
wish
any
honors
denied
to
the
memory
of
the
Founder
of
his
family
HIPPOGRIFF
n
An
animal
now
extinct
which
was
half
horse
and
half
griffin
The
griffin
was
itself
a
compound
creature
half
lion
and
half
eagle
The
hippogriff
was
actually
therefore
a
one
quarter
eagle
which
is
two
dollars
and
fifty
cents
in
gold
The
study
of
zoology
is
full
of
surprises
HISTORIAN
n
A
broad
gauge
gossip
HISTORY
n
An
account
mostly
false
of
events
mostly
unimportant
which
are
brought
about
by
rulers
mostly
knaves
and
soldiers
mostly
fools
Of
Roman
history
great
Niebuhr
s
shown
Tis
nine
tenths
lying
Faith
I
wish
twere
known
Ere
we
accept
great
Niebuhr
as
a
guide
Wherein
he
blundered
and
how
much
he
lied
Salder
Bupp
HOG
n
A
bird
remarkable
for
the
catholicity
of
its
appetite
and
serving
to
illustrate
that
of
ours
Among
the
Mahometans
and
Jews
the
hog
is
not
in
favor
as
an
article
of
diet
but
is
respected
for
the
delicacy
and
the
melody
of
its
voice
It
is
chiefly
as
a
songster
that
the
fowl
is
esteemed
the
cage
of
him
in
full
chorus
has
been
known
to
draw
tears
from
two
persons
at
once
The
scientific
name
of
this
dicky
bird
is
Porcus
Rockefelleri
Mr
Rockefeller
did
not
discover
the
hog
but
it
is
considered
his
by
right
of
resemblance
HOMOEOPATHIST
n
The
humorist
of
the
medical
profession
HOMOEOPATHY
n
A
school
of
medicine
midway
between
Allopathy
and
Christian
Science
To
the
last
both
the
others
are
distinctly
inferior
for
Christian
Science
will
cure
imaginary
diseases
and
they
can
not
HOMICIDE
n
The
slaying
of
one
human
being
by
another
There
are
four
kinds
of
homocide
felonious
excusable
justifiable
and
praiseworthy
but
it
makes
no
great
difference
to
the
person
slain
whether
he
fell
by
one
kind
or
another
the
classification
is
for
advantage
of
the
lawyers
HOMILETICS
n
The
science
of
adapting
sermons
to
the
spiritual
needs
capacities
and
conditions
of
the
congregation
So
skilled
the
parson
was
in
homiletics
That
all
his
normal
purges
and
emetics
To
medicine
the
spirit
were
compounded
With
a
most
just
discrimination
founded
Upon
a
rigorous
examination
Of
tongue
and
pulse
and
heart
and
respiration
Then
having
diagnosed
each
one
s
condition
His
scriptural
specifics
this
physician
Administered
his
pills
so
efficacious
And
pukes
of
disposition
so
vivacious
That
souls
afflicted
with
ten
kinds
of
Adam
Were
convalescent
ere
they
knew
they
had
em
But
Slander
s
tongue
itself
all
coated
uttered
Her
bilious
mind
and
scandalously
muttered
That
in
the
case
of
patients
having
money
The
pills
were
sugar
and
the
pukes
were
honey
Biography
of
Bishop
Potter
HONORABLE
adj
Afflicted
with
an
impediment
in
one
s
reach
In
legislative
bodies
it
is
customary
to
mention
all
members
as
honorable
as
the
honorable
gentleman
is
a
scurvy
cur
HOPE
n
Desire
and
expectation
rolled
into
one
Delicious
Hope
when
naught
to
man
it
left
Of
fortune
destitute
of
friends
bereft
When
even
his
dog
deserts
him
and
his
goat
With
tranquil
disaffection
chews
his
coat
While
yet
it
hangs
upon
his
back
then
thou
The
star
far
flaming
on
thine
angel
brow
Descendest
radiant
from
the
skies
to
hint
The
promise
of
a
clerkship
in
the
Mint
Fogarty
Weffing
HOSPITALITY
n
The
virtue
which
induces
us
to
feed
and
lodge
certain
persons
who
are
not
in
need
of
food
and
lodging
HOSTILITY
n
A
peculiarly
sharp
and
specially
applied
sense
of
the
earth
s
overpopulation
Hostility
is
classified
as
active
and
passive
as
respectively
the
feeling
of
a
woman
for
her
female
friends
and
that
which
she
entertains
for
all
the
rest
of
her
sex
HOURI
n
A
comely
female
inhabiting
the
Mohammedan
Paradise
to
make
things
cheery
for
the
good
Mussulman
whose
belief
in
her
existence
marks
a
noble
discontent
with
his
earthly
spouse
whom
he
denies
a
soul
By
that
good
lady
the
Houris
are
said
to
be
held
in
deficient
esteem
HOUSE
n
A
hollo