SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.

LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to haunt the heart were anciently believed to infest the liver; and even Gascoygne, speaking of the emotional side of human nature, calls it "our hepaticall parte." It was at one time considered the seat of life; hence its name- liver, the thing we live with.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.