Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.

ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.

Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.