DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

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

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.