EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.

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

PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.