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.

ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.