MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.