MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.
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HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime.
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RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
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NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
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