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miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be

consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest



Mush, abbreviated to Mh.

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. Three great scientific theories of the

structure of the universe are the molecular, the corpuscular and the



atomic. A fourth affirms, with Haeckel, the condensation of

precipitation of matter from ether -- whose existence is proved by the



condensation of precipitation. The present trend of scientific

thought is toward the theory of ions. The ion differs from the



molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion. A fifth

theory is held by idiots, but it is doubtful if they know any more



about the matter than the others.

MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See



_Molecule_.) According to Leibnitz, as nearly as he seems willing to

be understood, the monad has body without bulk, and mind without



manifestation -- Leibnitz knows him by the innate power of

considering. He has founded upon him a theory of the universe, which



the creature bears without resentment, for the monad is a gentlmean.

Small as he is, the monad contains all the powers and possibilities



needful to his evolution into a German philosopher of the first class

-- altogether a very capable little fellow. He is not to be



confounded with the microbe, or bacillus; by its inability to discern

him, a good microscope shows him to be of an entirely distinct



species.

MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch



ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects

have had occasion to learn. In Russia and the Orient the monarch has



still a considerable influence in public affairs and in the

disposition of the human head, but in western Europe political



administration is mostly entrusted to his ministers, he being

somewhat preoccupied with reflections relating to the status of his



own head.

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.



MONDAY, n. In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.

MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we



part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite

society. Supportable property.



MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in

genealogical trees.



MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary

babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound



by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon -- that is

to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable



of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.

The man who writes in Saxon



Is the man to use an ax on

Judibras



MONSIGNOR, n. A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of

our religion overlooked the advantages.



MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which

either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.



The bones of Agammemnon are a show,

And ruined is his royal monument,



but Agammemnon's fame suffers no diminution in consequence. The

monument custom has its _reductiones ad absurdum_ in monuments "to the



unknown dead" -- that is to say, monuments to perpetuate the memory of

those who have left no memory.



MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right.

Having the quality of general expediency.



It is sayd there be a raunge of mountaynes in the Easte, on

one syde of the which certayn conducts are immorall, yet on the other



syde they are holden in good esteeme; wherebye the mountayneer is much

conveenyenced, for it is given to him to goe downe eyther way and act



as it shall suite his moode, withouten offence.

_Gooke's Meditations_






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