APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.

The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.

Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.

Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.

The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.