POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

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

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election".

HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.