Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.