derived from the belief, common
  formerly, that thunder was caused by the Prince of the Air, for some
  of whose accomplishments consult Cotton Mather. 
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 gain’ tu?  Goin’ ta Boston.

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-spot, a five-dollar bill. 
Vally, value.

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
  favor of the Wilmot Proviso. 
Wig, Whig; a party now dissolved. 
Wunt, will not. 
Wus, worse. 
Wut, what. 
Wuth, worth; as, Antislavery perfessions ’fore ’lection aint
  wuth a Bungtown copper. 
Wuz, was, sometimes were.

Yaller, yellow. 
Yeller, yellow. 
Yellers, a disease of peach-trees.

Zack, Ole, a second Washington, an antislavery slaveholder; a humane
  buyer and seller of men and women, a Christian hero generally.

III.  INDEX TO BIGLOW PAPERS

A.

A. wants his axe ground. 
A.B., Information wanted concerning. 
Abraham (Lincoln), his constitutional scruples. 
Abuse, an, its usefulness. 
Adam, eldest son of,
  respected,
  his fall,
  how if he had bitten a sweet apple? 
Adam, Grandfather, forged will of. 
AEeneas goes to hell. 
AEeolus, a seller of money, as is supposed by some. 
AEeschylus, a saying of. 
Alligator, a decent one conjectured to be, in some sort, humane. 
Allsmash, the eternal. 
Alphonso the Sixth of Portugal, tyrannical act of. 
Ambrose, Saint, excellent (but rationalistic) sentiment of. 
‘American Citizen,’ new compost so called. 
American Eagle,
  a source of inspiration,
  hitherto wrongly classed,
  long bill of. 
Americans bebrothered. 
Amos cited. 
Anakim, that they formerly existed, shown. 
Angels
  providentially speak French,
  conjectured to be skilled in all tongues. 
Anglo-Saxondom, its idea, what. 
Anglo-Saxon mask. 
Anglo-Saxon race. 
Anglo-Saxon verse, by whom carried to perfection. 
Antiquaries, Royal Society of Northern. 
Antonius,
  a speech of,
  by whom best reported.