FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London

An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.

The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.