OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

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.

MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.