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.

NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.

OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.