MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

The wife, or bitter half.

Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.