WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. All acting is simulation, and the word _simulation_ is from _simia_, an ape; but in opera the actor takes for his model _Simia audibilis_ (or _Pithecanthropos stentor_) --the ape that howls.The actor apes a man --at least in shape; The opera performer apes and ape.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.