PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

The wife, or bitter half.