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- 21. Ambrose Bierce: DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided i ...
- 22. Ambrose Bierce: FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited t ...
- 23. Ambrose Bierce: FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into ...
- 24. Ambrose Bierce: GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the e ...
- 25. Ambrose Bierce: HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble office ...
- 26. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 27. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 28. Ambrose Bierce: LAUREL, n. The _laurus_, a vegetable dedicated to Apollo, and formerly defoliate ...
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one learned in laws ...
- 30. Ambrose Bierce: LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, ...
- 31. Ambrose Bierce: MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down ...
- 32. Ambrose Bierce: MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color le ...
- 33. Ambrose Bierce: MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the der ...
- 34. Ambrose Bierce: MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized ...
- 35. Ambrose Bierce: OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no s ...
- 36. Ambrose Bierce: ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear. Advocated ...
- 37. Ambrose Bierce: OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedne ...
- 38. Ambrose Bierce: PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing t ...
- 39. Ambrose Bierce: PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escape ...
- 40. Ambrose Bierce: PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession ...
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