CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

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

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

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