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- 281. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...

- 282. Ambrose Bierce: FORGETFULNESS, n. A gift of God bestowed upon doctors in compensation for their ...

- 283. Ambrose Bierce: FRANKALMOIGNE, n. The tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands on con ...

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

- 285. Ambrose Bierce: FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching th ...

- 286. Ambrose Bierce: GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outsid ...

- 287. Ambrose Bierce: GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The ...

- 288. Ambrose Bierce: GRAPE, n.
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- 289. Ambrose Bierce: GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a streng ...

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

- 291. Ambrose Bierce: HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble office ...

- 292. Ambrose Bierce: HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the b ...

- 293. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 294. Ambrose Bierce: HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...

- 295. Ambrose Bierce: IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the great ...

- 296. Ambrose Bierce: IMMORTALITY, n.
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- 297. Ambrose Bierce: IMPROBABILITY, n.
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- 298. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...

- 299. Ambrose Bierce: INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the com ...

- 300. Ambrose Bierce: INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not who ...

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