LL.D. Letters indicating the degree "Legumptionorum Doctor", one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some suspicion is cast upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly "LL.d.", and conferred only upon gentlemen distinguished for

LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system -- an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

LAWFUL, adj. Compatible with the will of a judge having jurisdiction.

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem -- a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.