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ABORIGINIES, n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a |
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newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize. |
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-ABRACADABRA. |
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By _Abracadabra_ we signify |
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An infinite number of things. |
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Ignores the Law as 't were a straw, |
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And wants to sin--don't let him. |
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-CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do _me_? |
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+CUI BONO?, [Latin] What good would that do _me_? |
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CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person |
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these persons from swift and awful death is one of the most striking |
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proofs of God's mercy to those that hate Him. |
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-FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person--a |
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+FORMA PAUPERIS, [Latin] In the character of a poor person--a |
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method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately |
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-HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when |
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HABIT, n. A shackle for the free. |
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-I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, |
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+I, is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, |
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the first thought of the mind, the first object of affection. In |
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grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number. Its |
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-IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors. |
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IMPROBABILITY, n. |
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-J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel-- |
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than which nothing could be more absurd. Its original form, which has |
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been but slightly modified, was that of the tail of a subdued dog, and |
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-K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced |
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away back beyond them to the Cerathians, a small commercial nation |
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inhabiting the peninsula of Smero. In their tongue it was called |
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_Klatch_, which means "destroyed." The form of the letter was |
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live with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it |
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that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg _pate_. |
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-LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one |
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learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some suspicion is cast |
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civilization and enlightenment, despite their obvious agency in this |
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-TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (_Glossina morsitans_) |
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+TZETZE FLY or TSETSE FLY, n. An African insect (_Glossina morsitans_) |
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whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy |
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for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American |
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-W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only |
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+W, (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only |
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cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic. This |
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advantage of the Roman alphabet over the Grecian is the more valued |
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-X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility |
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+X, in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility |
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to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will |
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doubtless last as long as the language. X is the sacred symbol of ten |
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dollars, and in such words as Xmas, Xn, etc., stands for Christ, not, |