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• NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art.
  As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama....
• 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 ....
• 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....
• PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him.
  For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk....
• FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth
  he perigee of his eccentric orbit. When David said...
• DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.
  Hearst kept a diary wherein were writ All that he had of wisdom and of wit....
• INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
  The introduction attains its most malevolent development in this century, being, indeed, closely related to our political system....
• In the beginning was the plan, and then the specification.
  And the plan was without form, and the specification was void....