Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.