J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.