An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.
The art of depicting nature as it is seen by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to where it is futile to go.
In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.
Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.
Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.