COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.