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

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.