ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.