MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.