ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

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