The Foolish Dictionary Words starting with A

AGE : Something to brag about in your wine-cellar and forget in a birth-day book. The boast of an old vintage, the bug a boo of an old maid.
ALCOHOL : A liquid good for preserving almost everything except secrets.
ALDERMAN : A political office known as the Crook's Road to Wealth. From Eng. all, and Greek derma, meaning skin--"all skin."
ALIMONY : An expensive soothing syrup, prescribed by the judge for a divorcee's bleeding heart. (Old spelling, allay money).
ALLOPATHY : From Eng. all, everybody, and Grk. pathos, pain. Pain for everybody. HOMOEOPATHY From Grk. homoios, same, and pathos. Pain, just the same.

ALPHABET : A toy for the children found in books, blocks, pictures and vermicelli soup. Contains 26 letters and only three syllables.
ANCESTORS : The originators of the Family Tree, a remarkable sex paradox in which the Ann sisters are always the four fathers.
ANGEL : A heavenly ineligible, with wings and a harp; or, an earthly eligible, with money and a heart.
ANTI-IMPERIALIST : A patriot whose conscience works overtime.
ANTIMONY : A metallic substance discovered by Valentine in 1450, and now extensively used in the arts--particularly poker.

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