CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?

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

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.

PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.