LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.