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Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/799464 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.20, Repoman-3.0.3 Signed-off-by: Alessandro Barbieri <lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com>
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ABORIGINIES, n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a
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newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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-ABRACADABRA.
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+ABRACADABRA,
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By _Abracadabra_ we signify
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An infinite number of things.
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Ignores the Law as 't were a straw,
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And wants to sin--don't let him.
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-CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do _me_?
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+CUI BONO?, [Latin] What good would that do _me_?
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CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person
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from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction
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these persons from swift and awful death is one of the most striking
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proofs of God's mercy to those that hate Him.
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-FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person--a
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+FORMA PAUPERIS, [Latin] In the character of a poor person--a
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method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately
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permitted to lose his case.
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-HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when
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+HABEAS CORPUS, A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when
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confined for the wrong crime.
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HABIT, n. A shackle for the free.
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-I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language,
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+I, is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language,
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the first thought of the mind, the first object of affection. In
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grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number. Its
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plural is said to be _We_, but how there can be more than one myself
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Pollo Doncas
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-IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.
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+IMPOSTOR, n. A rival aspirant to public honors.
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IMPROBABILITY, n.
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-J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel--
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+J, is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel--
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than which nothing could be more absurd. Its original form, which has
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been but slightly modified, was that of the tail of a subdued dog, and
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it was not a letter but a character, standing for a Latin verb,
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-K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced
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+K, is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced
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away back beyond them to the Cerathians, a small commercial nation
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inhabiting the peninsula of Smero. In their tongue it was called
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_Klatch_, which means "destroyed." The form of the letter was
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live with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it
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that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg _pate_.
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-LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one
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+LL.D., Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one
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learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some suspicion is cast
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upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly _LL.d._,
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and conferred only upon gentlemen distinguished for their wealth. At
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civilization and enlightenment, despite their obvious agency in this
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incomparable dictionary.
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-TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (_Glossina morsitans_)
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+TZETZE FLY or TSETSE FLY, n. An African insect (_Glossina morsitans_)
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whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy
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for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American
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novelist (_Mendax interminabilis_).
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-W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only
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+W, (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only
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cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic. This
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advantage of the Roman alphabet over the Grecian is the more valued
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after audibly spelling out some simple Greek word, like
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-X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility
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+X, in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility
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to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will
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doubtless last as long as the language. X is the sacred symbol of ten
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dollars, and in such words as Xmas, Xn, etc., stands for Christ, not,
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