LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermonger.
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POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as distinguished from monogamy, which has but one.Ambrose Bierce
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
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WHITE, adj. and n. Black.
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MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable ... Commonly Saxon that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.
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GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These quills when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an 'author,' there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.
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LIGHTHOUSE, n. A tall building on the seashore in which the government maintains a lamp and the friend of a politician.
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