BOTANY, n. The science of vegetables those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill- smelling.
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LOQUACITY, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.Ambrose Bierce
REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned .... whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
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ACCIDENT, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.
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SLANG, n. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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WORMS'-MEAT, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material.
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