Daily definitions
- Quill
- n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.
- Misdemeanor
- n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
- By misdemeanors he essays to climb Into the aristocracy of crime. O, woe was him! — with manner chill and grand “Captains of industry” refused his hand, “Kings of finance” denied him recognition And “railway magnates” jeered his low condition. He robbed a bank to make himself respected. They still rebuffed him, for he was detected.
- S.V. Hanipur
- Irreligion
- n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.