1832 Quotations with Cent.
- 101. Ambrose Bierce: GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outsid ...
- 102. Ambrose Bierce: GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The ...
- 103. Ambrose Bierce: GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior pa ...
- 104. Ambrose Bierce: GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a h ...
- 105. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 106. Ambrose Bierce: HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered ...
- 107. Ambrose Bierce: HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble office ...
- 108. Ambrose Bierce: HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and ...
- 109. Ambrose Bierce: HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the b ...
- 110. Ambrose Bierce: HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...
- 111. Ambrose Bierce: HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. Th ...
- 112. Ambrose Bierce: HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacitie ...
- 113. Ambrose Bierce: ILLUMINATI, n. A sect of Spanish heretics of the latter part of the sixteenth ce ...
- 114. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
- 115. Ambrose Bierce: INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in ...
- 116. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...
- 117. Ambrose Bierce: INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification o ...
- 118. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 119. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 120. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...
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