Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.

To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.