"RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth."

"KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually…"

"REVERENCE, n. The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man."

"APOSTATE, n. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, …"

"Hers, pron. His."

"Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions."

"Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen."

"Un-American, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish."

"Ambition, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."

"Amnesty, n. The state’s magnaminity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish."