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

NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.