er complaint often mistaken for piety.

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=BILL-OF-FARE= A list of eatables. Distinguished from Menu by
figures in the right-hand column.

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=BIOGRAPH= A stereopticon picture taken with a chill and shown
with tremors.

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=BIRDIE= A term a woman is apt to apply to a man she is playing
for a jay.

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=BIRTHDAY= Anniversary of one's birth. Observed only by men and
children.

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=BLUBBER= The useful product of a dead whale. The useless product
of a live baby.

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=BLUE= The only color we can feel. =INVISIBLE BLUE= A policeman.

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=BLUSH= A temporary erythema and calorific effulgence of the
physiognomy, aeteologized by the perceptiveness of the
sensorium, in a predicament of inequilibrity, from a sense of
shame, anger or other cause, eventuating in a paresis of the
vase-motorial, muscular filaments of the facial capillaries,
whereby, being divested of their elasticity, they become
suffused with a radiance emanating from an intimidated
praecordia.

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=BOARD= An implement for administering corporal punishment, used
by mothers and land-ladies. "The Festive Board" may be a
shingle, a hair-brush a fish-hash breakfast or a stewed prune
supper.

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=BOHEMIA= (Not on the map.) A land flowing with canned milk and
distilled honey and untroubled by consistency, convention,
conscience or cash. A land to which many are called and few
chosen.

=BONE= One Dollar--the original price of a wife. Note, Adam, who
had to give up one bone before he got Eve.

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=BONNETS= A female head trouble, which is contracted the latter
part of Lent and breaks out on Easter.

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=BOODLE= Money, born of poor, but dishonest parents, and taken in
by the Graft family.

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=BORROW= v. t., to swap hot air for cold coin.

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=BOWER= A shady retreat, in general.

=BOWERY=