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!"

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

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.