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<dfn>Abrupt</dfn>
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<p>Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon-shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it. <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author’s ideas that they were “concatenated without abruption.”</p>
<p>Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon-shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it. <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Dr.</abbr> Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author’s ideas that they were “concatenated without abruption.”</p>
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<dfn>Abruption</dfn>
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<p><abbr>Dr.</abbr> Johnson said of a certain work that the ideas were “concatenated without abruption.” In deference to that great authority we have given the word a place.</p>
<p><abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Dr.</abbr> Johnson said of a certain work that the ideas were “concatenated without abruption.” In deference to that great authority we have given the word a place.</p>
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<dfn>Abscond</dfn>
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<dfn>Behavior</dfn>
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<p>Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding. The word seems to be somewhat loosely used in <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Jamrach Holobom’s translation of the following lines from the <i epub:type="se:name.publication.poem">Dies Irae</i>:</p>
<p>Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding. The word seems to be somewhat loosely used in <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Dr.</abbr> Jamrach Holobom’s translation of the following lines from the <i epub:type="se:name.publication.poem">Dies Irae</i>:</p>
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<span class="i1">Recordare, Jesu pie,</span>
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<dfn>Brandy</dfn>
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<p>A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan. Dose, a headful all the time. Brandy is said by <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Johnson to be the drink of heroes. Only a hero will venture to drink it.</p>
<p>A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan. Dose, a headful all the time. Brandy is said by <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Dr.</abbr> Johnson to be the drink of heroes. Only a hero will venture to drink it.</p>
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<dfn>Bride</dfn>
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<dfn>Clio</dfn>
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<p>One of the nine Muses. Clio’s function was to preside over history⁠—which she did with great dignity, many of the prominent citizens of Athens occupying seats on the platform, the meetings being addressed by <abbr>Messrs.</abbr> Xenophon, Herodotus and other popular speakers.</p>
<p>One of the nine Muses. Clio’s function was to preside over history⁠—which she did with great dignity, many of the prominent citizens of Athens occupying seats on the platform, the meetings being addressed by <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Messrs.</abbr> Xenophon, Herodotus and other popular speakers.</p>
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<dfn>Clock</dfn>
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<dfn>Damn</dfn>
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<p>A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning of which is lost. By the learned <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Dolabelly Gak it is believed to have been a term of satisfaction, implying the highest possible degree of mental tranquillity. Professor Groke, on the contrary, thinks it expressed an emotion of tumultuous delight, because it so frequently occurs in combination with the word <em>jod</em> or <em>god</em>, meaning “joy.” It would be with great diffidence that I should advance an opinion conflicting with that of either of these formidable authorities.</p>
<p>A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning of which is lost. By the learned <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Dr.</abbr> Dolabelly Gak it is believed to have been a term of satisfaction, implying the highest possible degree of mental tranquillity. Professor Groke, on the contrary, thinks it expressed an emotion of tumultuous delight, because it so frequently occurs in combination with the word <em>jod</em> or <em>god</em>, meaning “joy.” It would be with great diffidence that I should advance an opinion conflicting with that of either of these formidable authorities.</p>
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<dfn>Dance</dfn>
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<dfn>Digestion</dfn>
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<p>The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead⁠—a circumstance from which that wicked writer, <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.</p>
<p>The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead⁠—a circumstance from which that wicked writer, <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Dr.</abbr> Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.</p>
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<dfn>Diplomacy</dfn>
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<dfn>Electricity</dfn>
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<p>The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous attempt to strike <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Franklin is one of the most picturesque incidents in that great and good man’s career. The memory of <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Franklin is justly held in great reverence, particularly in France, where a waxen effigy of him was recently on exhibition, bearing the following touching account of his life and services to science:</p>
<p>The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous attempt to strike <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Dr.</abbr> Franklin is one of the most picturesque incidents in that great and good man’s career. The memory of <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Dr.</abbr> Franklin is justly held in great reverence, particularly in France, where a waxen effigy of him was recently on exhibition, bearing the following touching account of his life and services to science:</p>
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<p>“Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.”</p>
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<dfn>Epigram</dfn>
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<p>A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterized by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the more notable epigrams of the learned and ingenious <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Jamrach Holobom:</p>
<p>A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterized by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the more notable epigrams of the learned and ingenious <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Dr.</abbr> Jamrach Holobom:</p>
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<p>We know better the needs of ourselves than of others. To serve oneself is economy of administration.</p>
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<dfn>Frog</dfn>
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<p>A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane literature is in Homer’s narrative of the war between them and the mice. Skeptical persons have doubted Homer’s authorship of the work, but the learned, ingenious and industrious <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Schliemann has set the question forever at rest by uncovering the bones of the slain frogs. One of the forms of moral suasion by which Pharaoh was besought to favor the Israelities was a plague of frogs, but Pharaoh, who liked them <i xml:lang="fr">fricassées</i>, remarked, with truly oriental stoicism, that he could stand it as long as the frogs and the Jews could; so the programme was changed. The frog is a diligent songster, having a good voice but no ear. The libretto of his favorite opera, as written by Aristophanes, is brief, simple and effective⁠—“brekekex-koäx”; the music is apparently by that eminent composer, Richard Wagner. Horses have a frog in each hoof⁠—a thoughtful provision of nature, enabling them to shine in a hurdle race.</p>
<p>A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane literature is in Homer’s narrative of the war between them and the mice. Skeptical persons have doubted Homer’s authorship of the work, but the learned, ingenious and industrious <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Dr.</abbr> Schliemann has set the question forever at rest by uncovering the bones of the slain frogs. One of the forms of moral suasion by which Pharaoh was besought to favor the Israelities was a plague of frogs, but Pharaoh, who liked them <i xml:lang="fr">fricassées</i>, remarked, with truly oriental stoicism, that he could stand it as long as the frogs and the Jews could; so the programme was changed. The frog is a diligent songster, having a good voice but no ear. The libretto of his favorite opera, as written by Aristophanes, is brief, simple and effective⁠—“brekekex-koäx”; the music is apparently by that eminent composer, Richard Wagner. Horses have a frog in each hoof⁠—a thoughtful provision of nature, enabling them to shine in a hurdle race.</p>
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<dfn>Frying-Pan</dfn>
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<dfn>Gunpowder</dfn>
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<p>An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the <abbr>Hon.</abbr> James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture.</p>
<p>An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Hon.</abbr> James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture.</p>
<p>Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary’s profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the seed of the <i epub:type="z3998:taxonomy">Flashawful flabbergastor</i>, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. “Great Scott! what is that?” cried a surveyor’s chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. “That,” said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, “is the Meridian of Washington.”</p>
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<dfn>Handkerchief</dfn>
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<p>A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and entrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare’s introducing it into the play of “Othello” is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day⁠—an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.</p>
<p>A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and entrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare’s introducing it into the play of “Othello” is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Dr.</abbr> Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day⁠—an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.</p>
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<dfn>Hangman</dfn>
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<dfn>Hog</dfn>
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<p>A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Muslims and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy of its habits, the beauty of its plumage and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dickybird is <i epub:type="z3998:taxonomy">Porcus Rockefelleri</i>. <abbr>Mr.</abbr> Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.</p>
<p>A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Muslims and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy of its habits, the beauty of its plumage and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dickybird is <i epub:type="z3998:taxonomy">Porcus Rockefelleri</i>. <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Mr.</abbr> Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.</p>
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<dfn>Homeopathist</dfn>
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<span class="i2">Of his legs fell Twaddle</span>
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<span class="i1">And astonished <abbr>Mr.</abbr> Twiddle,</span>
<span class="i1">And astonished <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Mr.</abbr> Twiddle,</span>
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<span class="i2">Who began to lift his noddle,</span>
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<dfn>Innards</dfn>
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<p>The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigators do not class the soul as an innard, but that acute observer and renowned authority, <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Gunsaulus, is persuaded that the mysterious organ known as the spleen is nothing less than our immortal part. To the contrary, Professor Garrett <abbr epub:type="z3998:given-name">P.</abbr> Servis holds that man’s soul is that prolongation of his spinal marrow which forms the pith of his no tail; and for demonstration of his faith points confidently to the fact that tailed animals have no souls. Concerning these two theories, it is best to suspend judgment by believing both.</p>
<p>The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigators do not class the soul as an innard, but that acute observer and renowned authority, <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Dr.</abbr> Gunsaulus, is persuaded that the mysterious organ known as the spleen is nothing less than our immortal part. To the contrary, Professor Garrett <abbr epub:type="z3998:given-name">P.</abbr> Servis holds that man’s soul is that prolongation of his spinal marrow which forms the pith of his no tail; and for demonstration of his faith points confidently to the fact that tailed animals have no souls. Concerning these two theories, it is best to suspend judgment by believing both.</p>
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<dfn>Innate</dfn>
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<h2 epub:type="title">J</h2>
<p><i epub:type="z3998:grapheme">J</i> is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel⁠—than which nothing could be more absurd. Its original form, which has been but slightly modified, was that of the tail of a subdued dog, and it was not a letter but a character, standing for a Latin verb, <i xml:lang="la">jacere</i>, “to throw,” because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog’s tail assumes that shape. This is the origin of the letter, as expounded by the renowned <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Jocolpus Bumer, of the University of Belgrade, who established his conclusions on the subject in a work of three quarto volumes and committed suicide on being reminded that the <i epub:type="z3998:grapheme">j</i> in the Roman alphabet had originally no curl.</p>
<p><i epub:type="z3998:grapheme">J</i> is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel⁠—than which nothing could be more absurd. Its original form, which has been but slightly modified, was that of the tail of a subdued dog, and it was not a letter but a character, standing for a Latin verb, <i xml:lang="la">jacere</i>, “to throw,” because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog’s tail assumes that shape. This is the origin of the letter, as expounded by the renowned <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Dr.</abbr> Jocolpus Bumer, of the University of Belgrade, who established his conclusions on the subject in a work of three quarto volumes and committed suicide on being reminded that the <i epub:type="z3998:grapheme">j</i> in the Roman alphabet had originally no curl.</p>
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<dfn>Jealous</dfn>
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