1533 Quotations with High.
- 81. Ambrose Bierce: ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner am ...
- 82. Ambrose Bierce: ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgement of one another's faults is the hig ...
- 83. Ambrose Bierce: BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become respon ...
- 84. Ambrose Bierce: BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think. That which distinguish ...
- 85. Ambrose Bierce: CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man ...
- 86. Ambrose Bierce: CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut.
- 87. Ambrose Bierce: DAMN, v. A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning of which is ...
- 88. Ambrose Bierce: DATARY, n. A high ecclesiastic official of the Roman Catholic Church, whose impo ...
- 89. Ambrose Bierce: DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not dis ...
- 90. Ambrose Bierce: DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards c ...
- 91. Ambrose Bierce: EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus a ...
- 92. Ambrose Bierce: EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the l ...
- 93. Ambrose Bierce: FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in f ...
- 94. Ambrose Bierce: GALLOWS, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading a ...
- 95. Ambrose Bierce: HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and ...
- 96. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 97. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
- 98. Ambrose Bierce: INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not who ...
- 99. Ambrose Bierce: INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in ...
- 100. Ambrose Bierce: INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutu ...
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