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- 61. Ambrose Bierce: INDECISION, n. The chief element of success; "for whereas," saith Sir Thomas Bre ...
- 62. Ambrose Bierce: INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kin ...
- 63. Ambrose Bierce: INSECTIVORA, n.
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- 64. Ambrose Bierce: INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification o ...
- 65. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 66. Ambrose Bierce: LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that ...
- 67. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 68. Ambrose Bierce: LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative ...
- 69. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 70. Ambrose Bierce: MYRMIDON, n. A follower of Achilles -- particularly when he didn't lead.
- 71. Ambrose Bierce: PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the ...
- 72. Ambrose Bierce: PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, le ...
- 73. Ambrose Bierce: REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually ...
- 74. Ambrose Bierce: RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and ...
- 75. Ambrose Bierce: RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a kin ...
- 76. Ambrose Bierce: SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the wo ...
- 77. Ambrose Bierce: SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So call ...
- 78. Ambrose Bierce: SMITHAREEN, n. A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain. The word is used variou ...
- 79. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 80. Ambrose Bierce: SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. In literature, and p ...
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