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

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.

CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.