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- 121. Ambrose Bierce: GARTHER, n. An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her stoc ...
- 122. Ambrose Bierce: GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particula ...
- 123. Ambrose Bierce: GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
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- 124. Ambrose Bierce: GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical ...
- 125. Ambrose Bierce: HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...
- 126. Ambrose Bierce: HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are bro ...
- 127. Ambrose Bierce: IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another ...
- 128. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...
- 129. Ambrose Bierce: INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not who ...
- 130. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
- 131. Ambrose Bierce: INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we ...
- 132. Ambrose Bierce: INTERREGNUM, n. The period during which a monarchical country is governed by a w ...
- 133. Ambrose Bierce: LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - ...
- 134. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
- 135. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 136. Ambrose Bierce: MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomac ...
- 137. Ambrose Bierce: MIRACLE, n. An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as bea ...
- 138. Ambrose Bierce: MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are ...
- 139. Ambrose Bierce: OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critic ...
- 140. Ambrose Bierce: PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter wit ...
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