PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

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

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Congratulations is the civility of envy.

INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.