To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.

Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.