Noise: a stench in the ear.

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.