Doubt is the father of invention.

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.

MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.

Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.