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

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.

ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

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

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.