PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.
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ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ('Musca maledicta'). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.
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OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer ...
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