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

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

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

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.