UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.

Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.