POKER, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.
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CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
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AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
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HURRY, n. The dispatch of bunglers.
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.
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