FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.