MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.