ENCOMIAST, n. A special (but not particular) kind of liar.

PREVARICATOR, n. A liar in the caterpillar estate.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

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

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp." --Calcraft the Hangman.

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it. The sarcophagus known to modern obsequiographers is commonly a product of the carpenter's art.