Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.