Daily definitions
- Academe
- n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
- Understanding
- n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.
- His understanding was so keen That all things which he’d felt, heard, seen, He could interpret without fail If he was in or out of jail. He wrote at Inspiration’s call Deep disquisitions on them all, Then, pent at last in an asylum, Performed the service to compile ’em. So great a writer, all men swore, They never had not read before.
- Jorrock Wormley
- Congress
- n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.
- Nectar
- n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.
- Juno drank a cup of nectar, But the draught did not affect her. Juno drank a cup of rye — Then she bade herself good-bye.
- J.G.
- Pity
- n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.