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

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians - who are Hogmies.

TRUCE, n. Friendship.