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.

BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.

A modern school where football is taught.

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

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

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.