1528 Quotations with Himself.
- 121. Ambrose Bierce: INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not who ...
- 122. Ambrose Bierce: INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we ...
- 123. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 124. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...
- 125. Ambrose Bierce: LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.
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- 126. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 127. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...
- 128. Ambrose Bierce: MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made ...
- 129. Ambrose Bierce: MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and c ...
- 130. Ambrose Bierce: PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himse ...
- 131. Ambrose Bierce: PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of ...
- 132. Ambrose Bierce: RAZOR, n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mong ...
- 133. Ambrose Bierce: REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
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- 134. Ambrose Bierce: RESPLENDENT, adj. Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, ...
- 135. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...
- 136. Ambrose Bierce: SATAN, n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and ax ...
- 137. Ambrose Bierce: SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite w ...
- 138. Ambrose Bierce: SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through s ...
- 139. Ambrose Bierce: SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. ...
- 140. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
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