Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

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

The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.