Ovation, N. N Ancient Rome,

You Cannot Adopt Politics As A Profession And Remain Honest.

Incompossible, Adj. Unable To Exist If Something Else Exists. Two Things Are Incompossible When The World Of Being Has Scope Enough For One Of Them, But Not Enough For Both - As Walt Whitman's Poetry And God's Mercy To Man.

Goose, N. A Bird That Supplies Quills For Writing. These [quills] When Inked And Drawn Mechanically Across Paper By A Person Called An "author," There Results A Very Fair And Accurate Transcript Of The Fowl's Thought And Feeling.

Self-esteem, N. An Erroneous Appraisal.

Coward: One Who, In A Perilous Emergency, Thinks With His Legs.