Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.