PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.