Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.
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POKER, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.
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MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.
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DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
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