Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
ALONE, adj. In bad company.
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
DEFENCELESS, adj. Unable to attack.
CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.
Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.
CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.
GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.
ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon-shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it.
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter sic resemblance of the Average Man.
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
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