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

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians - who are Hogmies.

MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.