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 punishment, used by
mothers and landladies. "The Festive Board" may be a shingle, a
hair-brush a fish-hash breakfast or a stewed prune supper.
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