BILLIOUSNESS
A liver complaint often mistaken for piety.
BILL-OF-FARE
A list of eatables. Distinguished from Menu by figures in the right-hand column.
BIOGRAPH
A stereopticon picture taken with a chill and shown with tremors.
BIRDIE
A term a woman is apt to apply to a man she is playing for a jay.
BIRTHDAY
Anniversary of one's birth. Observed only by men and children.
BLUBBER
The useful product of a dead whale. The useless product of a live baby.
BLUE
The only color we can feel.
INVISIBLE BLUE
A policeman.
BLUSH
A temporary erythema and calorific effulgence of the physiognomy, aeteologized by the perceptiveness of the sensorium, in a predicament of inequilibrity, from a sense of shame, anger or other cause, eventuating in a paresis of the vase-motorial, muscular filaments of the facial capillaries, whereby, being divested of their elasticity, they become suffused with a radiance emanating from an intimidated praecordia.
BOARD
An implement for administering corporal
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