Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

The wife, or bitter half.

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

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