Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.