RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

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.

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.