KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
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PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.
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MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.
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RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
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RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.
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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.
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