AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.

Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.

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