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• ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.
  Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names....
• PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only.
  The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians -- who are Hogmies....
• ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult.
  The ancient philosophies were of two kinds, -- _exoteric_, those that the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and _esoteric_, those that nobody could understand....
• LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with.
  The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to haunt the heart were anciently believed to infest the live...
• OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design.
  The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly....
• PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal.
  They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic....
• It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of anothe
  from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell....
• It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of anothe
  from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell....