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.

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

NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.

FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.