PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada.

FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.