The Foolish Dictionary An exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use, confused by a few pictures [not included]
    Any one whose opinion differs radically from ours.

     CIGARETTE

    A weed whose smoke, some say, should never be inhaled, and still more insist should never be exhaled.

     CINDER

    One of the first things to catch your eye in travelling.

     CIVILIZATION

    An upward growth or tendency that has enabled mankind to develop the college yell from what was once only a feeble war-whoop.

     COLLECTOR

    A man whom few care to see but many ask to call again.

     COLLEGE

    From Fr.

     colle

    , pasted or stuck, and

     etude

    , study. A place where everyone is stuck on study. (?)

    COLONEL

    A male resident of Kentucky.

    See

     KERNEL

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