CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
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.