REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling.

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.