ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

FORCE, n. "Force is but might," the teacher said p/ "That definition's just."/ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ "Force is not might but must!"