Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.

INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

Woman absent is woman dead.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.