CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.

Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.