W.
- Wake snakes, to get into trouble.
- Wal, well;
- spoken with great deliberation, and sometimes with the a very much flattened, sometimes (but more seldom) very much broadened.
- Wannut, walnut (hickory).
- Ware, where.
- Ware, were.
- Whopper, an uncommonly large lie;
- as, that General Taylor is in favour of the Wilmot Proviso.
- Wig, Whig;
- a party now dissolved.
- Wiz, to whiz;
- go off (like a rocket).
- Wunt, will not.
- Wus, worse.
- Wut, what.
- Wuth, worth;
- as, Antislavery perfessions 'fore 'lection aint wuth a Bungtown copper.
- Wuz, was, sometimes were.
Y.
- Yaller, yellow.
- Yeller, yellow.
- Yellers, a disease of peach-trees.
Z.
- Zach, Ole, a second Washington, an antislavery slaveholder, a humane buyer and seller of men and women, a Christian hero generally.
INDEX.
- A. B., information wanted concerning, [76].
- Adam, eldest son of, respected, [10].
- Æneas goes to hell, [101].
- Æolus, a seller of money, as is supposed by some, [101].
- Æschylus, a saying of, [51], [note].
- Alligator, a decent one conjectured to be, in some sort, humane, [120].
- Alphonso the Sixth of Portugal, tyrannical act of, [120].
- Ambrose, Saint, excellent (but rationalistic) sentiment of, [35].
- "American Citizen," new compost so called, [104].
- American Eagle, a source of inspiration, [45]
- Amos, cited, [34].
- Anakim, that they formerly existed, shown, [124].
- Angels, providentially speak French, [23]
- —conjectured to be skilled in all tongues, [ib.]
- Anglo-Saxondom, its idea, what, [21].
- Anglo-Saxon mask, [21].
- Anglo-Saxon race, [16].
- Anglo-Saxon verse, by whom carried to perfection, [11].
- Antonius, a speech of, [40]
- —by whom best reported, [ib.]
- Apocalypse, beast in, magnetic to theologians, [83].
- Apollo, confessed mortal by his own oracle, [83].
- Apollyon, his tragedies popular, [72].
- Appian, an Alexandrian, not equal to Shakspeare as an orator, [40].
- Ararat, ignorance of foreign tongues is an, [53].
- Arcadian background, [106].
- Aristophanes, [34].
- Arms, profession of, once esteemed especially that of gentlemen, [10].
- Arnold, [42].
- Ashland, [106].
- Astor, Jacob, a rich man, [91].
- Astræa, nineteenth century forsaken by, [102].
- Athenians, ancient, an institution of, [41].
- Atherton, Senator, envies the loon, [60].
- Austin, St., profane wish of, [43], [note].
- Aye-Aye, the, an African animal, America supposed to be settled by, [25].