2036 Quotations with Ense.
- 141. Ambrose Bierce: INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutu ...
- 142. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 143. Ambrose Bierce: LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate i ...
- 144. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 145. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 146. Ambrose Bierce: LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, ...
- 147. Ambrose Bierce: LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative ...
- 148. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 149. Ambrose Bierce: MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately fo ...
- 150. Ambrose Bierce: MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are ...
- 151. Ambrose Bierce: NONSENSE, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
- 152. Ambrose Bierce: NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conqu ...
- 153. Ambrose Bierce: ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingrat ...
- 154. Ambrose Bierce: OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence tha ...
- 155. Ambrose Bierce: PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
- 156. Ambrose Bierce: PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom -- and of whom ...
- 157. Ambrose Bierce: PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by per ...
- 158. Ambrose Bierce: RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and ...
- 159. Ambrose Bierce: RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
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- 160. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
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