BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.

Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.