DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.

Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.

FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.