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SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among...

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among...

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar...

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UNITARIAN, n. One...

UNITARIAN, n. One...

UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.

Source: The Devil's...

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VOTE, n. The...

VOTE, n. The...

VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his...

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YANKEE, n. In...

YANKEE, n. In...

YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the...

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WORSHIP, n. Homo...

WORSHIP, n. Homo...

WORSHIP, n. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of...

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YOUTH, n. The...

YOUTH, n. The...

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities...

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PEACE, n. In...

PEACE, n. In...

PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

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PRELATE, n. A...

PRELATE, n. A...

PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A...

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POSTERITY, n. An...

POSTERITY, n. An...

POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being...

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PROOF, n. Evidence...

PROOF, n. Evidence...

PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses...

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REAR, n. In...

REAR, n. In...

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to...

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RICE-WATER, n. A...

RICE-WATER, n. A...

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and...

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REPRESENTATIVE, n. In...

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In...

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of...

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RUMOR, n. A...

RUMOR, n. A...

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

Source: The Devil's...

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TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb...

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb...

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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SCRAP-BOOK, n. A...

SCRAP-BOOK, n. A...

SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books...

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SOPHISTRY, n. The...

SOPHISTRY, n. The...

SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and...

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WEATHER, n. The...

WEATHER, n. The...

WEATHER, n. The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but...

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WIT, n. The...

WIT, n. The...

WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it...

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WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In...

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In...

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes...

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