Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

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

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.