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

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

Woman absent is woman dead.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.