Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.

HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that

INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.