Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.