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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 13, No. 358, February 28, 1829 by Various
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_Evening._--The time between our sun-set and sun-rise.

_Night._---The time between our sun-rise and noon.

_Domestic._--An epithet applied to cats, dogs, and other tame animals,
keeping at home.

_Reflection._--The person viewed in a looking-glass.

_Tenderness._--A property belonging to meat long kept.

_An Undress._--A thick covering of garments.

_A Treasure._--A lady's maid, skilful in the mysteries of building up
heads, and pulling down characters; ingenious in the construction of
caps, capes, and scandal, and judicious in the application of paint and
flattery; also, a footman, who knows, at a single glance, what visiters
to admit to the presence of his mistress, and whom to refuse.

_Immortality_.--An imaginary privilege of living for ever, conferred upon
heroes, poets, and patriots.

_Taste_.--The art of discerning the precise shades of difference
constituting a bad or well dressed man, woman, or dinner.

_Tact_.--The art of wheedling a rich old relation, winning an heiress, or
dismissing duns with the payment of fair promises.

_Album_.--A ledger kept by ladies for the entry of compliments, in rhyme,
paid _on demand_ to their beautiful hair, complexions fair, the dimpled
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