PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries . .

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.