FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to haunt the heart were anciently believed to infest the liver; and even Gascoygne, speaking of the emotional side of human nature, calls it "our hepaticall parte." It was at one time considered the seat of life; hence its name- liver, the thing we live with.

Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.

A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.

ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

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

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.