ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.

Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .