PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.