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+<h1>H</h1>
+
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">habeas corpus.</span> A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">habit</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A shackle for the free.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hades</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> The lower world;
+the residence of departed spirits; the place where the dead live.</p>
+
+<p>Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not synonymous with our Hell, many of the most
+respectable men of antiquity residing there in a very comfortable kind of way. Indeed,
+the Elysian Fields themselves were a part of Hades, though they have since been
+removed to Paris. When the Jacobean version of the New Testament was in process
+of evolution the pious and learned men engaged in the work insisted by a
+majority vote on translating the Greek word “Aides” as “Hell”; but a
+conscientious minority member secretly possessed himself of the record and
+struck out the objectional word wherever he could find it. At the next meeting,
+the Bishop of Salisbury, looking over the work, suddenly sprang to his feet and
+said with considerable excitement: “Gentlemen, somebody has been razing ‘Hell’
+here!” Years afterward the good prelate’s death was made sweet by the
+reflection that he had been the means (under Providence) of making an
+important, serviceable and immortal addition to the phraseology of the English
+tongue.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hag</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, a hen, or cat. Old
+witches, sorceresses, etc., were called hags from the belief that their heads
+were surrounded by a kind of baleful lumination or nimbus—hag being the popular
+name of that peculiar electrical light sometimes observed in the hair. At one
+time hag was not a word of reproach: Drayton speaks of a “beautiful hag, all
+smiles,” much as Shakespeare said, “sweet wench.” It would not now be proper to
+call your sweetheart a hag—that compliment is reserved for the use of her
+grandchildren.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">half</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In
+the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and
+philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves;
+and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that
+God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and
+unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of
+that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus,
+however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">halo</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> Properly, a luminous ring encircling an astronomical body, but not infrequently
+confounded with “aureola,” or “nimbus,” a somewhat similar phenomenon worn as a
+head-dress by divinities and saints. The halo is a purely optical illusion,
+produced by moisture in the air, in the manner of a rainbow; but the aureola is
+conferred as a sign of superior sanctity, in the same way as a bishop’s mitre,
+or the Pope’s tiara. In the painting of the Nativity, by Szedgkin, a pious artist
+of Pesth, not only do the Virgin and the Child wear the nimbus, but an ass
+nibbling hay from the sacred manger is similarly decorated and, to his lasting
+honor be it said, appears to bear his unaccustomed dignity with a truly saintly
+grace.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hand</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into
+somebody’s pocket.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">handkerchief</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face
+and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The
+handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and
+intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare’s introducing it into the play
+of “Othello” is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr.
+Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own
+day—an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hangman</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and utmost
+gravity, and held in hereditary disesteem by a populace having a criminal
+ancestry. In some of the American States his functions are now performed by an
+electrician, as in New Jersey, where executions by electricity have recently
+been ordered—the first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody
+questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">happiness</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">harangue</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">harbor</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A place where ships taking shelter from stores are exposed to the fury of the customs.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">harmonists</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the
+last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hash,</span> <span class="pos">x.</span> There is no definition for this word—nobody knows what hash is.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hatchet</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A young axe, known among Indians as a Thomashawk.</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="poetry">“O bury the hatchet, irascible Red,</p>
+<p class="poetry">For peace is a blessing,” the White Man said.</p>
+<p class="poetry">The Savage concurred, and that weapon interred, With imposing rites, in the White Man’s head.</p>
+<p class="poetry">John Lukkus</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hatred</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another’s superiority.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">head-money</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A capitation tax, or poll-tax.</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="poetry">In ancient times there lived a king</p>
+<p class="poetry">Whose tax-collectors could not wring</p>
+<p class="poetry">From all his subjects gold enough</p>
+<p class="poetry">To make the royal way less rough.</p>
+<p class="poetry">For pleasure’s highway, like the dames</p>
+<p class="poetry">Whose premises adjoin it, claims</p>
+<p class="poetry">Perpetual repairing. So</p>
+<p class="poetry">The tax-collectors in a row</p>
+<p class="poetry">Appeared before the throne to pray</p>
+<p class="poetry">Their master to devise some way</p>
+<p class="poetry">To swell the revenue. “So great,”</p>
+<p class="poetry">Said they, “are the demands of state</p>
+<p class="poetry">A tithe of all that we collect</p>
+<p class="poetry">Will scarcely meet them. Pray reflect:</p>
+<p class="poetry">How, if one-tenth we must resign,</p>
+<p class="poetry">Can we exist on t’other nine?”</p>
+<p class="poetry">The monarch asked them in reply:</p>
+<p class="poetry">“Has it occurred to you to try</p>
+<p class="poetry">The advantage of economy?”</p>
+<p class="poetry">“It has,” the spokesman said: “we sold</p>
+<p class="poetry">All of our gray garrotes of gold;</p>
+<p class="poetry">With plated-ware we now compress</p>
+<p class="poetry">The necks of those whom we assess.</p>
+<p class="poetry">Plain iron forceps we employ</p>
+<p class="poetry">To mitigate the miser’s joy</p>
+<p class="poetry">Who hoards, with greed that never tires,</p>
+<p class="poetry">That which your Majesty requires.”</p>
+<p class="poetry">Deep lines of thought were seen to plow</p>
+<p class="poetry">Their way across the royal brow.</p>
+<p class="poetry">“Your state is desperate, no question;</p>
+<p class="poetry">Pray favor me with a suggestion.”</p>
+<p class="poetry">“O King of Men,” the spokesman said,</p>
+<p class="poetry">“If you’ll impose upon each head</p>
+<p class="poetry">A tax, the augmented revenue</p>
+<p class="poetry">We’ll cheerfully divide with you.”</p>
+<p class="poetry">As flashes of the sun illume</p>
+<p class="poetry">The parted storm-cloud’s sullen gloom,</p>
+<p class="poetry">The king smiled grimly. “I decree</p>
+<p class="poetry">That it be so—and, not to be</p>
+<p class="poetry">In generosity outdone,</p>
+<p class="poetry">Declare you, each and every one,</p>
+<p class="poetry">Exempted from the operation</p>
+<p class="poetry">Of this new law of capitation.</p>
+<p class="poetry">But lest the people censure me</p>
+<p class="poetry">Because they’re bound and you are free,</p>
+<p class="poetry">‘Twere well some clever scheme were laid</p>
+<p class="poetry">By you this poll-tax to evade.</p>
+<p class="poetry">I’ll leave you now while you confer</p>
+<p class="poetry">With my most trusted minister.”</p>
+<p class="poetry">The monarch from the throne-room walked</p>
+<p class="poetry">And straightway in among them stalked</p>
+<p class="poetry">A silent man, with brow concealed,</p>
+<p class="poetry">Bare-armed—his gleaming axe revealed!</p>
+<p class="citeauth">G. J.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hearse</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> Death’s baby-carriage.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">heart</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be
+the esat of emotions and sentiments—a very pretty fancy which, however, is
+nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the
+sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by
+chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak
+becomes a feeling—tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which
+it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar
+sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram;
+the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious
+contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility—these things have been
+patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing
+lucidity. (See, also, my monograph, <i>The Essential Identity of the Spiritual
+Affections and Certain Intestinal Gases Freed in Digestion</i>&#8212;4to, 687 pp.) In
+a scientific work entitled, I believe, <i>Delectatio
+Demonorum</i> (John Camden Hotton, London, 1873) this view of the
+sentiments receives a striking illustration; and for further light consult
+Professor Dam’s famous treatise on <i>Love as a
+Product of Alimentary Maceration</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">heat</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span></p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="poetry">Heat, says Professor Tyndall, is a mode</p>
+<p class="poetry">Of motion, but I know now how he’s proving</p>
+<p class="poetry">His point; but this I know—hot words bestowed</p>
+<p class="poetry">With skill will set the human fist a-moving, And where it stops the stars burn free and wild. <i>Crede expertum</i>&#8212;I have seen them, child.</p>
+<p class="citeauth">Gorton Swope</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">heathen</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and
+feel. According to Professor Howison, of the California State University,
+Hebrews are heathens.</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="poetry">“The Hebrews are heathens!” says Howison. He’s</p>
+<p class="poetry">A Christian philosopher. I’m</p>
+<p class="poetry">A scurril agnostical chap, if you please,</p>
+<p class="poetry">Addicted too much to the crime</p>
+<p class="poetry">Of religious discussion in my rhyme.</p>
+<p class="poetry">Though Hebrew and Howison cannot agree</p>
+<p class="poetry">On a <i>modus vivendi</i>&#8212;not they!&#8212;</p>
+<p class="poetry">Yet Heaven has had the designing of me,</p>
+<p class="poetry">And I haven’t been reared in a way</p>
+<p class="poetry">To joy in the thick of the fray.</p>
+<p class="poetry">For this of my creed is the soul and the gist,</p>
+<p class="poetry">And the truth of it I aver:</p>
+<p class="poetry">Who differs from me in his faith is an ‘ist,</p>
+<p class="poetry">And ‘ite, an ‘ie, or an ‘er—</p>
+<p class="poetry">And I’m down upon him or her!</p>
+<p class="poetry">Let Howison urge with perfunctory chin</p>
+<p class="poetry">Toleration—that’s all very well,</p>
+<p class="poetry">But a roast is “nuts” to his nostril thin,</p>
+<p class="poetry">And he’s running—I know by the smell—</p>
+<p class="poetry">A secret and personal Hell!</p>
+<p class="citeauth">Bissell Gip</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">heaven</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs,
+and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hebrew</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A male Jew, as distinguished from the Shebrew, an altogether superior creation.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">helpmate</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A wife, or bitter half.</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="poetry">“Now, why is yer wife called a helpmate, Pat?”</p>
+<p class="poetry">Says the priest. “Since the time ‘o yer wooin’ She’s niver [sic] assisted in what ye were at—</p>
+<p class="poetry">For it’s naught ye are ever doin’.”</p>
+<p class="poetry">“That’s true of yer Riverence [sic],” Patrick replies,</p>
+<p class="poetry">And no sign of contrition envices;</p>
+<p class="poetry">“But, bedad, it’s a fact which the word implies,</p>
+<p class="poetry">For she helps to mate the expinses [sic]!”</p>
+<p class="citeauth">Marley Wottel</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hemp</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put
+on after public speaking in the open air and prevents the wearer from taking cold.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hermit</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hers,</span> <span class="pos">pron.</span> His.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hibernate</span>, <span class="pos">v.i.</span> To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular
+popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the
+bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking
+its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so
+lean that it had to try twice before it can cast a shadow. Three or four centuries
+ago, in England, no fact was better attested than that swallows passed the
+winter months in the mud at the bottom of their brooks, clinging together in
+globular masses. They have apparently been compelled to give up the custom and
+account of the foulness of the brooks. Sotus Ecobius discovered in Central Asia
+a whole nation of people who hibernate. By some investigators, the fasting of
+Lent is supposed to have been originally a modified form of hibernation, to
+which the Church gave a religious significance; but this view was strenuously
+opposed by that eminent authority, Bishop Kip, who did not wish any honors
+denied to the memory of the Founder of his family.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hippogriff</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was
+itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was
+actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents
+in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">historian</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A broad-gauge gossip.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">history</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by
+rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="poetry">Of Roman history, great Niebuhr’s shown</p>
+<p class="poetry">‘Tis nine-tenths lying.<br />
+Faith, I wish ‘twere known, Ere we accept great Niebuhr as a guide,<br />
+Wherein he blundered and how much he lied.</p>
+<p class="citeauth">Salder Bupp</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hog</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that
+of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article
+of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is
+chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus
+has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of
+this dicky-bird is <i>Porcus Rockefelleri</i>.
+Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of
+resemblance.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">homoeopathist</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> The humorist of the medical profession.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">homoeopathy</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last
+both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure
+imaginary diseases, and they can not.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">homicide</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious,
+excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to
+the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another—the classification is
+for advantage of the lawyers.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">homiletics</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions
+of the congregation.</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="poetry">So skilled the parson was in homiletics</p>
+<p class="poetry">That all his normal purges and emetics</p>
+<p class="poetry">To medicine the spirit were compounded</p>
+<p class="poetry">With a most just discrimination founded</p>
+<p class="poetry">Upon a rigorous examination</p>
+<p class="poetry">Of tongue and pulse and heart and respiration.</p>
+<p class="poetry">Then, having diagnosed each one’s condition,</p>
+<p class="poetry">His scriptural specifics this physician</p>
+<p class="poetry">Administered—his pills so efficacious</p>
+<p class="poetry">And pukes of disposition so vivacious</p>
+<p class="poetry">That souls afflicted with ten kinds of Adam<br />
+Were convalescent ere they knew they had ‘em.<br />
+But Slander’s tongue—itself all coated—uttered<br />
+Her bilious mind and scandalously muttered<br />
+That in the case of patients having money<br />
+The pills were sugar and the pukes were honey.</p>
+<p class="citeauth"><i>Biography of Bishop Potter</i></p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">honorable</span>, <span class="pos">adj.</span> Afflicted with an impediment in one’s reach. In legislative bodies it is customary to
+mention all members as honorable; as, “the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.”</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hope</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> Desire and expectation rolled into one.</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="poetry">Delicious Hope! when naught to man it left—</p>
+<p class="poetry">Of fortune destitute, of friends bereft;</p>
+<p class="poetry">When even his dog deserts him, and his goat
+With tranquil disaffection chews his coat
+While yet it hangs upon his back; then thou,
+The star far-flaming on thine angel brow,
+Descendest, radiant, from the skies to hint
+The promise of a clerkship in the Mint.</p>
+<p class="citeauth"><span class="def">Fogarty Weffing</span></p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hospitality</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need
+of food and lodging.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hostility</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth’s overpopulation. Hostility
+is classified as active and passive; as (respectively) the feeling of a woman
+for her female friends, and that which she entertains for all the rest of her sex.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">Houri</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good
+Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his
+earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul. By that good lady the Houris are said to
+be held in deficient esteem.</p>
+
+<p id="house" class="entry"><span class="def">house</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte, cockroach, fly,
+mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe. <i>House
+of Correction</i>, a place of reward for political and personal service,
+and for the detention of offenders and appropriations. <i>House of God</i>, a building with a steeple
+and a mortgage on it. <i>House-dog</i>,
+a pestilent beast kept on domestic premises to insult persons passing by and
+appal the hardy visitor. <i>House-maid</i>,
+a youngerly person of the opposing sex employed to be variously disagreeable
+and ingeniously unclean in the station in which it has pleased God to place her.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">houseless</span>, <span class="pos">adj.</span> Having paid all taxes on household goods.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hovel</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> The fruit of a flower called the Palace.</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="poetry">Twaddle had a hovel,</p>
+<p class="poetry">Twiddle had a palace;</p>
+<p class="poetry">Twaddle said: “I’ll grovel</p>
+<p class="poetry">Or he’ll think I bear him malice”—</p>
+<p class="poetry">A sentiment as novel</p>
+<p class="poetry">As a castor on a chalice.</p>
+<p class="poetry">Down upon the middle</p>
+<p class="poetry">Of his legs fell Twaddle</p>
+<p class="poetry">And astonished Mr. Twiddle,</p>
+<p class="poetry">Who began to lift his noddle.</p>
+<p class="poetry">Feed upon the fiddle&#8212;</p>
+<p class="poetry">Faddle flummery, unswaddle</p>
+<p class="poetry">A new-born self-sufficiency and think himself a [mockery.]</p>
+<p class="citeauth">G. J.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">humanity</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">humorist</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh’s heart and
+persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="poetry">Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind</p>
+<p class="poetry">See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined—</p>
+<p class="poetry">Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray, His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day.</p>
+<p class="poetry">He thinks, admitted to an equal sty,</p>
+<p class="poetry">A graceful hog would bear his company.</p>
+<p class="citeauth">Alexander Poke</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hurricane</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the
+tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies
+and is preferred by certain old-fashioned sea-captains. It is also used in the
+construction of the upper decks of steamboats, but generally speaking, the
+hurricane’s usefulness has outlasted it.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hurry</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> The dispatch of bunglers.</p>
+
+<p id="husband" class="entry"><span class="def">husband</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hybrid</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A pooled issue.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hydra</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hyena</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at
+night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hypochondriasis</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> Depression of one’s own spirits.</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="poetry">Some heaps of trash upon a vacant lot<br />
+Where long the village rubbish had been shot<br />
+Displayed a sign among the stuff and stumps—<br />
+“Hypochondriasis.” It meant The Dumps.</p>
+<p class="citeauth">Bogul S. Purvy</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">hypocrite</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of
+seeming to be what he depises.</p>
+
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