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.

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.

FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".

Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting