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

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

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.