om the bonds
of matrimony. In the vicinity of Newport it is frequently a
legal formula that immediately precedes a fashionable wedding.

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=DOCK= A place for laying up.

=DOCTOR= One who lays you up.

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=DREAM= What a man may call a woman, though a Pill may have
suggested it. Sweethearts are dreams because they seldom come
true; wives, because they're often a night-mare, and both
because they go by contraries.

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=DRAFT= (=DRAUGHT=) What gives a cold, cures a cold, and pays the
doctor's bill.

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=DROP-STITCH= A kind of feminine hosiery designed to prevent the
men from paying too much attention to the open-work,
"peek-a-boo" shirt-waist.

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=DRUM= Something noisy, and made to beat.

=DRUMMER= Something noisy, but impossible to beat. From the Grk.
_drimus_, meaning sharp. Hence, something sharp, that always
carries its point and sticks whoever it can.

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=DUST= Mud with the juice squeezed out.

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=DYNAMITE=

[Illustration]

The peroration of an anarchist's argument.

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=DYSPEPSIA= A good foundation for a bad temper.

Out of sight, only in mind.--_Ballad of the Blind Beggar_.

E

A word to the wise is useless.

=EAGLE= The national bird of a Christian country; (the United
States.) Presumably chosen on account of its being a bird of
pray.

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=EARL= A title of nobility.

=EARLY= A title of stupidity. See old saw,

"Early to bed and early to rise,
Makes a man a farmer!"

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=EARTH=

[Illustration]

A solid substance, much desired by the seasick.

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=ECHO= The only thing that can cheat a woman out of the last word.

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=ECONOMY= Denying ourselves a necessary to-day in order to buy a
luxury to-morrow.

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=EGG=

[Illustration]

A wholesome, yet fowl, product, of no use until broken. Sometimes
a cure for indigesti