PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

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

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

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe], followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.