SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.

LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.