ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.