Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

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

A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.