Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

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.

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.