MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

Woman absent is woman dead.

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.