INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

Woman absent is woman dead.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

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