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LAWSUIT, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage.Source:...
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MEDAL, n. A small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less...
MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.--...
MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing...
MOUSQUETAIRE, n. A long glove covering a part of the arm. Worn in New Jersey. But mousquetaire is a might poor way to...
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of...
NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama...
OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense;...
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their...
OVERWORK, n. A dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go...
OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing...
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of...
POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.Source: The Devil's...
POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.Source:...
REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The...
RAMSHACKLE, adj. Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as the Normal American. Most of the...
REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous; needless; de trop.Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the...
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character...
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.Source: In Webster's Electronic...
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