POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.