To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

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.