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- [
- {
- "term": "BACCHUS",
- "part": "n.",
- "definition": "A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.",
- "quote": [
- "Is public worship, then, a sin,",
- "That for devotions paid to Bacchus",
- "The lictors dare to run us in,",
- "And resolutely thump and whack us?"
- ],
- "author": "Jorace"
- },
- {
- "term": "BACKBITE",
- "part": "v.t.",
- "definition": "To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you."
- },
- {
- "term": "BEARD",
- "part": "n.",
- "definition": "The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head."
- },
- {
- "term": "BEGGAR",
- "part": "n.",
- "definition": "One who has relied on the assistance of his friends."
- },
- {
- "term": "BELLADONNA",
- "part": "n.",
- "definition": "In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
- },
- {
- "term": "BIGAMY",
- "part": "n.",
- "definition": "A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy."
- },
- {
- "term": "BORE",
- "part": "n.",
- "definition": "A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
- }
- ]
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