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

INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."

A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.