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• Outsider

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  O UTSIDER , n . A person austerely censorious of that which he is unable to do or become. In commerce and finance, a member of the army of provision. 2009 Update : Every member of congress, each American journalist, the entire class of working people, any accountant, police officer, preacher, pundit, ...
  13 hours ago

• Scarabee

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  S CARABEE , n . The same as scarabaeus. He fell by his own hand Beneath the great oak tree. Hed traveled in a foreign land. He tried to make her understand The dance thats called the Saraband, But he called it Scarabee. He had called it so through an afternoon, And she, the light of his harem if so might be, Had ...
  3 days ago

• Seine

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  S EINE , n . A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones. The devil casting a seine of lace, (With precious stones twas weighted) Drew it into the landing ...
  4 days ago

• Self-Evident

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  S ELF -E VIDENT , adj . Evident to ones self and to nobody else. 2009 Update : Contemporary.
  6 days ago

• Sequestrate

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  SEQUESTRATE , v . A legal term for robbing the under dog in the fight. 2009 Update : To privilege with quarantine, isolation or inaccessibility, as a bank fund. (or on a boat) Happy birthday to Tan Lucy Pez and to Terry .
  1 week ago

• Tzetze (or Tsetse) Fly

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  T ZETZE (or T SETSE ) F LY , n . An African insect (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is commonly regarded as natures most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist (Mendax interminabilis). 2009 Update : A large fly native to sub-saharan Africa, principally ...
  1 week ago

• Jack Sh*t, Gettin Fit: Product Review: Nutra-Trim Gum

  
  Review This Crazy World — Authority: 162
  After I ticked off the POM Wonderful people (personally, I think they took the phrase “purple urine” completely out of context), I figured I was out of the product-review business for the foreseeable future. … Read the original post: Jack Sh*t, Gettin Fit: Product Review: Nutra-Trim Gum
  1 week ago

• Product Review and Giveaway: Noel Memory Wordbook Kit | FaveCraftsBlog

  
  Review This Crazy World — Authority: 162
  With die-cut wordbook pages, coordinating papers, stickers and embellishments, you have everything you need to create a great memory book for Christmas. Just add your photos and keepsakes. The kit even comes with an easel for display. Here is the original post: Product Review and Giveaway: Noel Memory Wordbook Kit | ...
  1 week ago

• Turkey

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  T URKEY , n . A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating. 2009 Update : A creature that, by domestication, caging and overfeeding has evolved from a wild fowl into a symbol for American ...
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• Trinity

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  T RINITY , n . In the multiplex theism of certain Christian churches, three entirely distinct deities consistent with only one. Subordinate deities of the polytheistic faith, such as devils and angels, are not dowered with the power of combination, and must urge individually their claims to adoration and ...
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• Tope

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  T OPE , v . To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the abstemious Mohammedans go down like grass before the scythe. In India ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gold-Bug

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  G OLD -B UG , n . In political matters, a miscreant who has the wickedness to know that legislation cannot maintain a permanent relation between the values of two metals, even by the luminous device pf binding them together in the same coins. A miller who grinds the faces of the poor and takes the whole grist for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gastric Juice

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  G ASTRIC J UICE , n . A liquid for dissolving oxen and making men of the pulp. 2009 Update : The humor that controls intelligence in a man, gravity in a woman and affection in a dog.
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• Gnu

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  G NU , n . An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. A hunter from Kew caught a distant view Of a peacefully meditative gnu, And he said: "Ill pursue, and my hands ...
  2 weeks ago

• On November 17th I seem to blog more than usual.

  
  Gary Said... — Authority: 125
  So a few months ago I installed the A Year Ago Today plug-in it shows a list of posts that I’ve done on this day (date) in the past at the top of my blog. I’ve liked it a lot, it reminds me of things I’ve done in the past so I generally revisit the posts. Sometimes I barely even remember blogging it. And ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grape

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  G RAPE , n . Hail noble fruit! — by Homer sung, Anacreon and Khayyam; Thy praise is ever on the tongue Of better men than I am. The lyre in my hand has never swept, The song I cannot offer: My humbler service pray accept — Ill help to kill the scoffer. The water-drinkers and the cranks Who load their skins ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cane

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  C ANE , n . A convenient article for admonishing the gentle slanderer and the inconsiderate rival. 2009 Update : A portable foundation with which to reinforce the rigidity of the elderly, or upon which to erect an upright child. A mobile martyrdom, Crux mobilis .
  3 weeks ago

• Cudgel

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  C UDGEL , n . A medicine for external application to the head and shoulders of a fool. 2009 Update : A heavy club which, the likeliest weapon of Friar Tuck, which has since obsolesced in favor of theology.
  3 weeks ago

• Coenobite

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  C OENOBITE , n . A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples. O Coenobite, O coenobite, Monastical gregarian, You differ from the anchorite, That solitudinarian: With vollied prayers you wound Old Nick; With ...
  4 weeks ago

• Eulogy

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  E ULOGY , n . Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. 2009 Update : A brief review of the virtues from a life well and fully lived.
  4 weeks ago

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