ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.