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- 361. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 362. Ambrose Bierce: MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good ...
- 363. Ambrose Bierce: MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made ...
- 364. Ambrose Bierce: MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked I ...
- 365. Ambrose Bierce: MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See _Molecule_.) According ...
- 366. Ambrose Bierce: MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the qual ...
- 367. Ambrose Bierce: NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its ...
- 368. Ambrose Bierce: NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.
- 369. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
- 370. Ambrose Bierce: OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bish ...
- 371. Ambrose Bierce: OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including wh ...
- 372. Ambrose Bierce: OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied th ...
- 373. Ambrose Bierce: OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedne ...
- 374. Ambrose Bierce: PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in someth ...
- 375. Ambrose Bierce: PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious succes ...
- 376. Ambrose Bierce: PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a ...
- 377. Ambrose Bierce: RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the ind ...
- 378. Ambrose Bierce: RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a kin ...
- 379. Ambrose Bierce: R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of _requiescat in pace_, attesting to indolent go ...
- 380. Ambrose Bierce: ROAD, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome ...
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