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PAST, n. That part of Eternity...

PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.

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EXISTENCE, n. A transient, hor...

EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: 'O fudge!'

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MANNA, n. A food miraculously ...

MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

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BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen c...

BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.

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OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a ...

OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser 'triumph.'

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GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employ...

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.

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CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desi...

CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.

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K, n. A consonant; originally ...

K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.

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DISABUSE, v.t. To present your...

DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.

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ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward u...

ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.

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PLUNDER, v. To take the proper...

PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.

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LAST, n. A shoemaker's impleme...

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

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PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to t...

PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

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LOVE, n. A temporary insanity ...

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

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LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray met...

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.

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ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. ...

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

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QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chival...

QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.

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HUSBAND, n. One who, having di...

HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.

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RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate ...

RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, 'Homo ventrambulans'.

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REAR, n. In American military ...

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

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