Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.

HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.