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.

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.

RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.