Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.

Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.

Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

Advice, the smallest current coin.

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.