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You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a...

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FREEBOOTER, n. A...

FREEBOOTER, n. A...

FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of...

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GNOSTICS, n. A...

GNOSTICS, n. A...

GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists....

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HABIT, n. A...

HABIT, n. A...

HABIT, n. A shackle for the free.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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HOUSE, n. A...

HOUSE, n. A...

HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea,...

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HOMILETICS, n. The...

HOMILETICS, n. The...

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the...

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IMMIGRANT, n. An...

IMMIGRANT, n. An...

IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

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INDIGESTION, n. A...

INDIGESTION, n. A...

INDIGESTION, n. A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and...

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KILT, n. A...

KILT, n. A...

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

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KNOWLEDGE, n. --...

KNOWLEDGE, n. --...

KNOWLEDGE, n. -- The small body of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

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MAGNETISM, n. Something...

MAGNETISM, n. Something...

MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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LOCK-AND-KEY, n. The...

LOCK-AND-KEY, n. The...

LOCK-AND-KEY, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.

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LOGIC, n. The...

LOGIC, n. The...

LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human...

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LINEN, n. A...

LINEN, n. A...

LINEN, n. A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp. -- Calcraft the...

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MAIDEN, n. A...

MAIDEN, n. A...

MAIDEN, n. A young person of the unfair sex. The maiden is not altogether unpleasing to the eye, nor (without her...

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MAD, adj. Affected...

MAD, adj. Affected...

MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It...

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MONEY, n. A...

MONEY, n. A...

MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a...

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MONUMENT, n. A...

MONUMENT, n. A...

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be...

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MOUTH, n. In...

MOUTH, n. In...

MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.

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MULTITUDE, n. A...

MULTITUDE, n. A...

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's...

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