BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.

INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.

USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.