PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.