Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.

Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

The god of the world's leading religion.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

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