BEAUTY, n. That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
CONVENT, n. A place of retirement for woman who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of idleness.
CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Let us be consistent and [also] give one to the unmarried man.
MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.
QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.
WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.
Devilous Definitions
By shekhar_khanpara - Posted on December 27th, 2006
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