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- 161. Ambrose Bierce: GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...
- 162. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...
- 163. Ambrose Bierce: IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to ...
- 164. Ambrose Bierce: INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not who ...
- 165. Ambrose Bierce: INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unl ...
- 166. Ambrose Bierce: LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
- 167. Ambrose Bierce: LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one learned in laws ...
- 168. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...
- 169. Ambrose Bierce: MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity c ...
- 170. Ambrose Bierce: MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the der ...
- 171. Ambrose Bierce: PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the ...
- 172. Ambrose Bierce: READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a ...
- 173. Ambrose Bierce: REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to ...
- 174. Ambrose Bierce: R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of _requiescat in pace_, attesting to indolent go ...
- 175. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 176. Ambrose Bierce: T, the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, was by the Greeks absurdly call ...
- 177. Ambrose Bierce: TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in h ...
- 178. Ambrose Bierce: W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, th ...
- 179. Ambrose Bierce: ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a gro ...
- 180. Ambrose Bierce: ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, t ...
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