Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.

The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.