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- 161. Ambrose Bierce: DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was i ...

- 162. Ambrose Bierce: DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to hims ...

- 163. Ambrose Bierce: DIE, n. The singular of "dice." We seldom hear the word, because there is a proh ...

- 164. Ambrose Bierce: EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of anot ...

- 165. Ambrose Bierce: EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus a ...

- 166. Ambrose Bierce: EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the ...

- 167. Ambrose Bierce: EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by ...

- 168. Ambrose Bierce: EXCOMMUNICATION, n.
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- 169. Ambrose Bierce: FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
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- 170. Ambrose Bierce: FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of r ...

- 171. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...

- 172. Ambrose Bierce: GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical ...

- 173. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...

- 174. Ambrose Bierce: HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, ...

- 175. Ambrose Bierce: HEARSE, n. Death's baby-carriage.

- 176. Ambrose Bierce: HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is ...

- 177. Ambrose Bierce: HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacitie ...

- 178. Ambrose Bierce: HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharao ...

- 179. Ambrose Bierce: IMPROBABILITY, n.
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- 180. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...

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