Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.