Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.

A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.