Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg "pate".

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.