The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy DaysAbnormal To have intelligence, charac ter or genius to be less stupid than one's neighbor; to be better than the worst; to be one's self. E. G., the writer of these lines.Abode 1. A place where one cleans one's teeth and occasionally sleeps. 2. A long counter with a gutter and a rail at the bottom over which one is served with any liquid in a glass. 3. Dwelling, fireside (obsolete in this sense). 4. A grave.Abnegation A plan for securing the thing in the easiest and surest way. Academic 1. Of, or pertaining to, fossils vegetative; parasitic; the opposite of change, viable, evolution. 2. Relating to a society that promotes the love of the static and the immobile. 3. Apish, parrot like, phonographic.Adieu A prayer of thanksgiving uttered at parting. A acquaintance Any one we bow to politely at the opera or shake hands with warmly in a barroom, but whom we would kick out of our homes. Hence, any one who has refused us a loan.Act: 1. Thought in motion 2. An actor who says he gets three thousand a week.Abyss: 1. The measureless gulf between literature and the American magazine. 2. The distance between a thinker and an editorial writer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.