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

Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.

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

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.