Patience, N. A Minor Form Of Dispair,

Ambition. An Overmastering Desire To Be Vilified By Enemies While Living And Made Ridiculous By Friends When Dead.

Indifferent, Adj. Imperfectly Sensible To Distinctions Among Things.

Oyster, N. A Slimy, Gobby Shellfish Which Civilization Gives Men The Hardihood To Eat Without Removing Its Entrails! The Shells Are Sometimes Given To The Poor.

Rice-water, N. A Mystic Beverage Secretly Used By Our Most Popular Novelists And Poets To Regulate The Imagination And Narcotize The Conscience.

Rum, N. Generically, Fiery Liquors That Produce Madness In Total Abstainers.