Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.

A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.