Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.

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.