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.

A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.

EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.