Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.