OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.