Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, _Homo ventrambulans_.