2629 Quotations with Form.
- 181. Ambrose Bierce: LAUREL, n. The _laurus_, a vegetable dedicated to Apollo, and formerly defoliate ...
- 182. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 183. Ambrose Bierce: LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one learned in laws ...
- 184. Ambrose Bierce: LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, ...
- 185. Ambrose Bierce: MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, ...
- 186. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...
- 187. Ambrose Bierce: MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down ...
- 188. Ambrose Bierce: MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity c ...
- 189. Ambrose Bierce: MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color le ...
- 190. Ambrose Bierce: MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the der ...
- 191. Ambrose Bierce: MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the qual ...
- 192. Ambrose Bierce: MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized ...
- 193. Ambrose Bierce: OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no s ...
- 194. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...
- 195. Ambrose Bierce: ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear. Advocated ...
- 196. Ambrose Bierce: OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence tha ...
- 197. Ambrose Bierce: OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had b ...
- 198. Ambrose Bierce: OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedne ...
- 199. Ambrose Bierce: PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing t ...
- 200. Ambrose Bierce: PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escape ...
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