Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.