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- 241. Ambrose Bierce: BEHAVIOR, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding. The word ...
- 242. Ambrose Bierce: BLACKGUARD, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries ...
- 243. Ambrose Bierce: BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters -- the most difficult kind of Englis ...
- 244. Ambrose Bierce: BOTANY, n. The science of vegetables -- those that are not good to eat, as well ...
- 245. Ambrose Bierce: CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at ...
- 246. Ambrose Bierce: CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance -- ...
- 247. Ambrose Bierce: CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired boo ...
- 248. Ambrose Bierce: CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exh ...
- 249. Ambrose Bierce: DANCE, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms ...
- 250. Ambrose Bierce: DATARY, n. A high ecclesiastic official of the Roman Catholic Church, whose impo ...
- 251. Ambrose Bierce: DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit a ...
- 252. Ambrose Bierce: DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy i ...
- 253. Ambrose Bierce: DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not dis ...
- 254. Ambrose Bierce: EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
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- 255. Ambrose Bierce: ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by inj ...
- 256. Ambrose Bierce: ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient p ...
- 257. Ambrose Bierce: EXCOMMUNICATION, n.
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- 258. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 259. Ambrose Bierce: FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
- 260. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
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