MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.