LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

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

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.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.