Tact.—The art of wheedling a rich old relation, winning an heiress, or dismissing duns with the payment of fair promises.
Album.—A ledger kept by ladies for the entry of compliments, in rhyme, paid on demand to their beautiful hair, complexions fair, the dimpled chin, the smiles that win, the ruby lips, where the bee sips, &c. &c.; the whole amount being transferred to their private account from the public stock.
Resignation.—Giving up a place.
A Heathen.—An infidel to the tenets of ton, a Goth; a monster; a vulgar wretch. One who eats twice of soup, swills beer, takes wine, knows nothing about ennui, dyspepsia, or peristaltic persuaders, and does not play ecarté; a creature—nobody.
Vice.—An instrument made use of by ladies in netting for the purpose of securing their work.
A Martyr.—A gentleman subject to the gout.
Temperate.——Quiet, an epithet applied only to horses.
Bore.—A country acquaintance, or relation, a leg of mutton, a hackney-coach, &c., children, or a family party.
Love.—Admiration of a large fortune.
Courage.—Shooting a fellow creature, perhaps a friend, from the fear of being thought a coward.