RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.