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Yankee, n. In Europe, anAmerican.In the Northern States ofour Union, aNew Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (SeeDAMYANK.) Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. Yesterday, n. The infancy ofyouth, the youth of manhood, the entire past ofage. But yesterdayI should havethought me blest To stand high-pinnacled upon the peak Of middle life and look adown the bleak And unfamiliar foreslope to the West, Where solemn shadows allthe land invest And stilly voices, half-remembered, speak Unfinished prophecy, and witch-fires freak The haunted twilight of the Dark of Rest. Yea, yesterdaymy soul was all aflame To staythe shadow on the dial's face At manhood's noonmark! Now, in God His name I chide aloud the little interspace Disparting me from Certitude, and fain Would know the dream and vision ne'er again. Baruch Arnegriff. It is said that in his last illnessthe poet ArnegrifFwas attended at different times by seven doctors. Yoke, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name,/z^w, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language—a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy. A thousand apologies for withholding it. Youth, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer. Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on earth again, when figsare grown on thistles, and pigs Detailed with whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and cows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice never is heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and, howling, is cast into Baltimost!—Polydore Smith. THE UNABRIDGED DEVIL'S DICTIONARY : 243 ...

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