A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.