PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.