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The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.

To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.

To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details.

The House of Indifference.

A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus.

A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

Friendship.

An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

Once too often.

A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

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.

One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.

mentally stimulating diversions