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1555 Quotations with Down.

1. I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ...
2. From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with ...
3. JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
4. LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
5. MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it ...
6. MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Br ...
7. MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down ...
8. MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the qual ...
9. POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old ...
10. PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art ...
11. PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In ...
12. RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable ...
13. RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, F ...
14. SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the wo ...
15. SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through s ...
16. SMITHAREEN, n. A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain. The word is used variou ...
17. STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
18. TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the indiv ...
19. WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction t ...
20. YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age ...

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