Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.