RIOT

n : A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders. R. I. P. A carele abbreviation of requiescat in pace, attesting an indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than reductus in pulvis. RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the e ential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it. RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the gra . Roab, n. A strip of land along which one may pa from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go. All roads, howsoe’er they diverge, lead to Rome, Whence, thank the good Lord, at least one leads back home. Borey the Bald. 302