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 Definitions.

- A matter of cause - Effect. - A matter of cores - Apple sauce. - A matter of coerce - Compulsion. - A matter of course - A horse race. - A matter of corse - Grave robbing. - A matter of coarse - Cheap clothing.

- Colts - A horse heir. - Clocks - Striking objects. - Custom - The law of fools. - Cold snap - An icy answer. - Comma - A period with a long tail. - Contractor - The girl who laces tightly - Counter attraction - A pretty sales-woman. - Corkscrew - The key which unlocks the gait of a man's legs. - Cotton Mather - A writer who invented the cotton gin and wrote histories. - Coquette - One who first steals you heart by her address, and then steels he own heart to your addresses. - Constitution of the United States was established to insure domestic hostility - That part of the book at the end which no body reads.

- Divorce - See Chicago. - Dead sea fruit - Currents. - Diamond - A dear little thing. - Damsel - Greatest sell on record. - Done with the pen - A dead dig. - Door - Knobbiest part of the house. - Diamond in the ruff - A lady brooch. - Domestics - The hire class of society. - Dirt - Mud with the juice squeezed out. - Dancing - Embodied melody; poetry of motion. - Demagogue - A vessel containing beer and other liquids.

- Flat failure - A poor pancake. - Forced politeness - Bowing to necessity. - Flirtation - Attention without intention. - Feast of reason - The entertainment of an idea. - First-class securities - Handcuffs and timelocks. - Flirt - A fish which eats all the bait and escapes the hook; the complete angler.