LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.

Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.