IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.