CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.