PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.

Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.

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.

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.