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

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.