ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".