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Wurdz, Gideon, 1875-

"An exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use, confused by a few pictures [not included]"


WRINKLES A merchant's trade-marks.

It's the first straw hat which shows how the wind blows.
X Y Z
A Ride goeth before a Fall.--See Automobile, Bucking Broncho,
Bicycle, Air-Ship, Patrol-Wagon, Rail, and Go-Cart.

X RAYS Ten dollars from a friend.

YARN An essential in fabrication--either woven or narrated. Mill
yarns are highly colored; those spun at sea much more so.
YAWL Either the shape of a boat or the sound of a cat, but never a
cat-boat.
YAWNS The air-breaks on a sleeper.
YEAR A period originally including 365 days, now 325, since the
other 40 are Lent.
YELLOW FEVER A passion for reading the Hearst newspapers.
YOLK The legacy of the hen and the burden of its lay.
YOKE The inheritance of the hen-pecked and the burden of the
married.
YULE-LOG A Christmas protege of the grate, too young to smoke, too
tough to burn and too green to warm up to anybody.
YOUTH The dynamo that makes the world go round; a product of its
own generation, with its wires carrying Power into the high places
of Earth and with its currents of Thought short-circuited only by
bigoted Old Age.


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