HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.

A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.