OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa

Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.