AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.