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.

REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.

Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.