INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."