PIANO A tool frequently used in building a Rough House.


PIN The best dresser in a woman's acquaintance—of remarkable penetration and true as steel, seldom loses its head, follows its own bent and carries its point in whatever it undertakes.


PING-PONG A game invented for the benefit of furniture and crockery dealers.


PITY An emotion awakened in a man's mind when he beholds the children of a woman who might have married him instead.


PLATONIC LOVE An arrangement in which a man and woman attempt a correct imitation of a pair of icicles—and never succeed.