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• Logic

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  L OGIC , n . The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion -- thus: Major Premise : Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly ...
  3 days ago

• Lap

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  L AP , n . One of the most important organs of the female system -- an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. The male of our species has a rudimentary lap, imperfectly developed and in no way ...
  5 days ago

• Libertarian

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  L IBERTARIAN , n . One who is compelled by the evidence to believe in free-will, and whose will is therefore free to reject that doctrine. 2009 Update : A political philosopher who would limit the government to the construction of roads, the enforcement of contracts and defense of the borders by happy accident. ...
  6 days ago

• Opera

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  O PERA , n . A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. All acting is simulation, and the word simulation is from simia, an ape; but in opera the actor takes for his model Simia audibilis (or Pithecanthropos ...
  1 week ago

• Oppose

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  O PPOSE , v.t . To assist with obstructions and objections. How lonely he who thinks to vex With badinage the Solemn Sex! Of levity, Mere Man, beware; None but the Grave deserve the Unfair. Percy P. Orminder 2009 Update : To make a martyr or to make a satyr. Half-man-half-beasts took up their seats In ...
  1 week ago

• Otherwise

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  OTHERWISE , adv . No better. 2009 Update : Inevitably.
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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, ...
  1 week 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 ...
  2 weeks 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Self-Evident

  
  Waking Ambrose — Authority: 422
  S ELF -E VIDENT , adj . Evident to ones self and to nobody else. 2009 Update : Contemporary.
  2 weeks 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 .
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• 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 ...
  3 weeks 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
  3 weeks 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 | ...
  3 weeks 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  3 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 ...
  4 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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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