Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.