A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.

ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.