CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election".

Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

He laughs best who laughs least.

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods.

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.