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.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.