Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

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

MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.

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

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.