LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.