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PRESCRIPTION, n. A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the...
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RESOLUTE, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.Source: The Devil's...
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and...
REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation...
RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a...
REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses...
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were...
RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity...
WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that...
LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of...
MAUSOLEUM, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich.Source: The Devil's...
MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.Source: The...
NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high...
OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.Source: The Devil's...
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist...
PLOW, n. An implement that cries aloud for hands accustomed to the pen.Source: The...
POLITENESS, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously...
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong...
REPOSE, v.i. To cease from troubling.Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.--...
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