SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.

CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.

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

MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.