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.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.