LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.

Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."