Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

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

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.