The Roycroft Dictionary
THE ROYCROFT DICTIONARY
CONCOCTED
by
Ali Baba and the Bunch
on
RAINY DAYS
DONE INTO A
PRINTED BOOK BY THE
ROYCROFTERS AT THEIR SHOP FOR
THE DIVERTISEMENT OF
THE GLOOMSTERS
MCMXIV
Copyright 1914
by Elbert Hubbard
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DVERTISING:The education of the public as to who you are, where youare, and what you have to offer in way of skill, talent or commodity.The only man who should not advertise is the man who has nothing tooffer the world in way of commodity or service.
Abel: The first squealer.
Abhorrence: 1. A pronounced feeling ofdislike in the presence of what is superioror unattainable. 2. To discover one's realself and to slander somebody or somethingelse in revenge. 3. A form of hate thatsuffers from mal de mer.
Asbestos: 1. The white-hope of thedamned. 2. A specially prepared paper[6]upon which The Philistine is printed.
Arson: To be careless in the use of fire.(General Sherman was at times more orless careless in the use of fire on his Marchto the Sea.—Hon. Henry W. Grady.)
Aeronaut: A person who goes up inorder to come down. Hence, a meta-physician.
Abnormal: To have intelligence, characteror genius; to be less stupid than one'sneighbor; to be better than the worst; tobe one's self. E. g., the writer of theselines.
Abode: 1. A place where one cleans one'steeth and occasionally sleeps. 2. A longcounter with