SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.