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- 181. Ambrose Bierce: FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of r ...
- 182. Ambrose Bierce: HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble office ...
- 183. Ambrose Bierce: HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...
- 184. Ambrose Bierce: HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are bro ...
- 185. Ambrose Bierce: ICONOCLAST, n. A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratif ...
- 186. Ambrose Bierce: IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to ...
- 187. Ambrose Bierce: INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unl ...
- 188. Ambrose Bierce: JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost ...
- 189. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 190. Ambrose Bierce: LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bo ...
- 191. Ambrose Bierce: LUMINARY, n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing ab ...
- 192. Ambrose Bierce: MEANDER, n. To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the ancient name of ...
- 193. Ambrose Bierce: MOLECULE, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from ...
- 194. Ambrose Bierce: OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has bee ...
- 195. Ambrose Bierce: PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, w ...
- 196. Ambrose Bierce: PLAN, v.t. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result ...
- 197. Ambrose Bierce: POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of p ...
- 198. Ambrose Bierce: QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one per ...
- 199. Ambrose Bierce: RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and ...
- 200. Ambrose Bierce: ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mort ...
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