RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.
RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.
To seek a justification for a decision already made.
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.