HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.