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.

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.