Devils Dictionary 'B'


BACKBITE, v.t.
To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
 
BEAUTY, n.
The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
 
BEG, v.
To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.
 
BEGGAR, n.
One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
 
BELLADONNA, n.
In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongue
 
 
BIRTH, n.
The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Aetna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.
 
BORE, n.
A person who talks when you wish him to listen

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