SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.

IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

Doubt is the father of invention.

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

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