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INTERREGNUM, n. The period during which a monarchical country is governed by a warm spot on the cushion of the throne. The experiment of letting the spot grow cold has commonly been attended by most unhappy results from the zeal of many worthy persons to"
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"INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both -- as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man."
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"INVENTOR, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs, and believes it civilization."
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"INJURY, n. An offense next in degree of enormity to a slight."
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"INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability . . ."
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