ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that

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