1118 Quotations by Ambrose Bierce
- 681. NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to ...
- 682. NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking ...
- 683. Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking th ...
- 684. NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.
- 685. NONSENSE, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
- 686. NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great nos ...
- 687. NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and ...
- 688. NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter b ...
- 689. NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature tha ...
- 690. OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for per ...
- 691. OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at ...
- 692. OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
- 693. OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was onc ...
- 694. OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer h ...
- 695. OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advoca ...
- 696. OCCIDENT, n. The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Ch ...
- 697. Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
- 698. OFFENSIVE, adj. Generating disagreeable emotions or sensations, as the advance of an army against it ...
- 699. OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an _ol ...
- 700. OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "u ...
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