A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa

A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.

I think I think, therefore I think I am.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.