Tu, _to_, _too_; commonly has this sound when used emphatically, or at the end of a sentence. At other times it has the sound of _t_ in _tough_, as _Ware ye goin' tu? Goin' ta Boston_. U. Ugly, _ill-tempered_, _intractable_. Uncle Sam, _United States_; the largest boaster of liberty and owner of slaves. Unrizzest, applied to dough or bread; _heavy_, _most unrisen_, or _most incapable of rising_. V V spot, _a five-dollar bill_. Vally, _value_. 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 --hitherto wrongly classed, 51 --long bill of, 51. 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_.