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.Observing that it was the head of their leader, the Horizontalists hastened to profess themselves converted to whatever opinion the Crown might be pleased to hold, and Horizontalism took its place among fides defuncti.ZEUS, n.The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance into the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names.ZIGZAG, v.t.To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.(From zed, z, and jag, an Icelandic word of unknown meaning.)He zedjagged so uncomen wydeThet non coude pas on eyder syde;So, to com saufly thruh, I beenConstreynet for to doodge betwene.MunweleZOÖLOGY, n.The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (Musca maledicta).The father of Zoölogy was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.Two of the science's most illustrious expounders were Buffon and Oliver Goldsmith, from both of whom we learn (L'Histoire générale des animaux and A History of Animated Nature) that the domestic cow sheds its horns every two years
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