applause, n. The echo of a platitude..

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction..

REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide..

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her..

To the eye of failure success is an accident..

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity..

Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods..

CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin..

Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based..

TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thom….

Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting.

Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary..

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important..

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out..

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect..

A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a kin….

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a ….

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place..

DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly perfor….

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire..