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• RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have
  as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like....
• PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only.
  The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians -- who are Hogmies....
• ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.
  J. One day a wag -- what would the wretch be at?...
• OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest.
  Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes....
• YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name
  _jugum_, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language -- a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy....
• OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation.
  A lesser "triumph." In modern English the word is improperly used to signify any loose and spontaneous expression of popular homage to the hero of the hour and place....
• BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think.
  That which distinguishes the man who is content to _be_ something from the man who wishes to _do_ something....
• LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox
  The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades....
• LUNARIAN, n. An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom the moon inhabits.
  The Lunarians have been described by Lucian, Locke and other observers, but without much agreement....