CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."

GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.A hunter from Kew caught a distant view Of a peacefully meditative gnu, And he said: "I'll pursue, and my hands imbrue In its blood at a closer interview." But that beast did ensue and the hunter it threw O'er the top of a palm that adjacent grew; And he said as he flew: "It is well I withdrew Ere, losing my temper, I wickedly slew That really meritorious gnu." --Jarn Leffer

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.