BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

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

HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.