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• OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possessio
  it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities....
• EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture to offer this brief and elementary definitio
  for I am not unaware of the existence of a bulky volume by a sometime Bishop of Worcester, entitled, _A Partial Definition of the Word "Everlasting," as Used in the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures_....
• ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.
  (From _zed_, _z_, and _jag_, an Icelandic word of unknown meaning....
• MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth.
  Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language....
• PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, {WYSIWYG}.
  Visual, `point-and-shoot'-style interfaces tend to have easy initial learning curves, but also to lack depth...
• ALTAR, n. The place whereupon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods.
  The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female tool....
• LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption.
  Some suspicion is cast upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly _LL....
• canonical adj. [very common; historically, `according to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of something.
  This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics....
• COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have
  and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due....