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• CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears.
  There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet -- two clarionets....
• Inadmissible: Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with
  and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone....
• But as records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind.
  The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw...
• FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests.
  It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children....
• PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
  An ancient philosopher, expounding his conviction that life is no better than death, was asked by a disciple why, then, he did not die....
• WEREWOLF, n. A wolf that was once, or is sometimes, a man.
  All werewolves are of evil disposition, having assumed a bestial form to gratify a beastial appetite, but some, transformed by sorcery, are as humane and is consistent with an acquired taste for human flesh....
• MEDAL, n. A small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less authentic.
  It is related of Bismark, who had been awarded a medal for gallantly rescuing a drowning person, that, being asked the meaning of the medal, he replied...
• PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands.
  Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution....