An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.

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

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.