FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs.
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.
ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.
APOTHECARY, n. The physician’s accomplice, undertaker’s benefactor and grave worm’s provider.
Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
A penny saved is a penny to squander.
Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.
The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.
PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.
ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.
DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.
NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.
PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.
Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.