Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.Intent on making his quotation truer, He sought the page infallible of Brewer, Then made a solemn vow that we would be Condemned eternally. Ah, me, ah, me! --Stumpo Gaker

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden. (From _zed_, _z_, and _jag_, an Icelandic word of unknown meaning.)He zedjagged so uncomen wyde Thet non coude pas on eyder syde; So, to com saufly thruh, I been Constreynet for to doodge betwene. --Munwele

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.