Patience, N. A Minor Form Of Dispair,

Reveille, N. A Signal To Sleeping Soldiers To Dream Of Battlefields No More, But Get Up And Have Their Blue Noses Counted.

Day, N. A Period Of Twenty-four Hours, Mostly Misspent.

Clarinet N. An Instrument Of Torture Operated By A Person With Cotton In His Ears. There Are Two Instruments Worse Than A Clarinet – Two Clarinets.

Talk, V.t. To Commit An Indiscretion Without Temptation, From An Impulse Without Purpose.

He Who Thinks With Difficulty Believes With Alacrity.