TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.

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

The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.