RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.

The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.