If Charley didn't have a cent to his name and a harelip, he'd make Roy Brownell look like thirty cents.

Distortion N. distortion, detortion^, contortion; twist, crookedness &c (obliquity) 217; grimace; deformity; malformation, malconformation^; harelip; monstrosity, misproportion^, want of symmetry, anamorphosis^; ugliness &c 846; talipes^; teratology.

[1340]"if a great-bellied woman see a hare, her child will often have a harelip," as we call it.

Great-bellied women, when they long, yield us prodigious examples in this kind, as moles, warts, scars, harelips, monsters, especially caused in their children by force of a depraved phantasy in them:

I wouldn't be ashamed of a harelip and warts in New Mexico.

Thus a harelip is not a hare's lip, nor is a headman a headsman, or heart-ease heart's-ease.

62. Is there a difference worth notice, between such terms or things as heart-ease and heart's-ease; a harelip and a hare's lip; a headman and a headsman; a lady's-slipper and a lady's slipper?

You would never be guilty of saying to any man's face, "How hideous your harelip renders you"and why should you go from his presence and make such a statement to the whole world concerning him?