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- 281. Ambrose Bierce: ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it ...
- 282. Ambrose Bierce: EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the l ...
- 283. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 284. Ambrose Bierce: FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited t ...
- 285. Ambrose Bierce: FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and ...
- 286. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 287. Ambrose Bierce: GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, comm ...
- 288. Ambrose Bierce: GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied ...
- 289. Ambrose Bierce: GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.
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- 290. Ambrose Bierce: GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a h ...
- 291. Ambrose Bierce: GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...
- 292. Ambrose Bierce: HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble office ...
- 293. Ambrose Bierce: HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...
- 294. Ambrose Bierce: HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. Th ...
- 295. Ambrose Bierce: HOSTILITY, n. A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's over ...
- 296. Ambrose Bierce: HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally ab ...
- 297. Ambrose Bierce: IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the great ...
- 298. Ambrose Bierce: IMMORTALITY, n.
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- 299. Ambrose Bierce: INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are inc ...
- 300. Ambrose Bierce: INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not who ...
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