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- 221. Ambrose Bierce: ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it ...

- 222. Ambrose Bierce: EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that ...

- 223. Ambrose Bierce: EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) suc ...

- 224. Ambrose Bierce: EXCOMMUNICATION, n.
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- 225. Ambrose Bierce: EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassado ...

- 226. Ambrose Bierce: FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and ...

- 227. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...

- 228. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...

- 229. Ambrose Bierce: GALLOWS, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading a ...

- 230. Ambrose Bierce: GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, comm ...

- 231. Ambrose Bierce: GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
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- 232. Ambrose Bierce: GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attende ...

- 233. Ambrose Bierce: GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical ...

- 234. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...

- 235. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...

- 236. Ambrose Bierce: HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is ...

- 237. Ambrose Bierce: HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he ...

- 238. Ambrose Bierce: HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte ...

- 239. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...

- 240. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...

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