DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.