"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, …"

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

"Optimist, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white."

"Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions."

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

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

"Hers, pron. His."

"Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it."