HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.

QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.