ZEAL: The feeling you have before you secure the thing, as compared with "Stung," which is your condition after you have captured it.

ZONE: The region immediately surrounding a Limburger Cheese.

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ZERO: A round figure often referred to by Doctor Cook in his diary, and which his enemies tried to make symbolic of himself.

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ZIGZAG: The route followed by poets in arriving at truth, as opposed to the direct course which they take for the buffet.

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ZEUS: A grouchy old god who was so reduced in estate that he posed as a model for Greek artists.

ZEITGEIST: The things that everybody believes, but that nobody understands.

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Definition of agriculturist: duplicate "in" removed.

Definition of chums: right parenthesis supplied at end of second sentence.

Definition of consciousness: extraneous right parenthesis removed.

Definition of decalogue: "animiles" corrected to "animals".

Definition of diplomat: "man" corrected to "woman".

Definition of house: comma at end of sentence two changed to period.

End of Project Gutenberg's The Roycroft Dictionary, by Elbert Hubbard