LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.