Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.

MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?