WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.

HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.