Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to haunt the heart were anciently believed to infest the liver; and even Gascoygne, speaking of the emotional side of human nature, calls it "our hepaticall parte." It was at one time considered the seat of life; hence its name- liver, the thing we live with.

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.