Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.

One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.