CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.
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RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.
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GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
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DOG, n. A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.... His master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
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INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
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