Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe], followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.

THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.