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

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.