Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.

To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.

ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.