MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.