Webster (Revised)

Mal-de-mer—An affectation pertaining to young ladies when first called upon to dissect dog-fish.

Frigid—The Library on a winter's Saturday morning, when George lies in, instead of stoking the boilers. Hence derivatively: the condition of the earth during the Glacial Age.

Ambivalence—The feeling that Brookie has spotted you talking on the staircase beneath the Foundation Stone tablet to a friend of the other sex, who happens to be passing in the contrary direction.

Claustraphobia—An aversion to lecture room on the occasion of examinations.

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Hallucination— The effect of a philosophy lecture supervening immediately on a geographical disquisition with the disastrous consequence that, on being told that Socrates held that wisdom prevented backsliding, an ethereal vision spontaneously appears of Prof,: Mac. climbing a scree on Mt. Matthews to get to a new second-hand bookshop recently opened on the summit, and turning to wave on Prof. Boyd-Wilson and the Tramping Club who slide grotesquely below in all directions, relying apparently on nothing but the spike shards of steel in their boots, and the hopes of a future "boil up" in their breasts.

Pan's pipings—Effects produced by the impact of Prof. A—'s boots (especially constructed for the South Sea Islands trade, but sold in limited quantities in Wellington owing to the decline in native music in Rarotonga and Suva) on the gallery steps in the Library.

Psycho-anaslysis—An examination in Anglo-Saxon. Hence derivatively: Regression to an infantile level racially, as in dreams or dementia praecox.

Obsession as in Paranoia—The broad highway to 1st class honours.