This fearful-looking word, I wish to inform my lady-readers, is an original and monstrous amalgamation of three or four Greek words—[Greek:κυανο-χαιτ-ανθρωπο-ποιων:kyano-chait-anthrôpo-poiôn]—denoting a fluid "which can render the human hair black." Whenever a barber or perfumer determines on trying to puff off some villanous imposition of this sort, strange to say, he goes to some starving scholar, and gives him half-a-crown to coin a word like the above; one which shall be equally unintelligible and unpronounceable, and therefore attractive and popular.