The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

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.

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

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.