KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.

POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.