RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.

TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.