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- 301. Ambrose Bierce: MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, ...

- 302. Ambrose Bierce: NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown ...

- 303. Ambrose Bierce: OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and ...

- 304. Ambrose Bierce: OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including wh ...

- 305. Ambrose Bierce: PALM, n. A species of tree having several varieties, of which the familiar "itch ...

- 306. Ambrose Bierce: PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escape ...

- 307. Ambrose Bierce: PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an obse ...

- 308. Ambrose Bierce: PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly wit ...

- 309. Ambrose Bierce: PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of ...

- 310. Ambrose Bierce: PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these dispu ...

- 311. Ambrose Bierce: RANSOM, n. The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller, nor can bel ...

- 312. Ambrose Bierce: RAMSHACKLE, adj. Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known ...

- 313. Ambrose Bierce: REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation.

- 314. Ambrose Bierce: RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of ...

- 315. Ambrose Bierce: RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and ...

- 316. Ambrose Bierce: RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the ind ...

- 317. Ambrose Bierce: RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses thems ...

- 318. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...

- 319. Ambrose Bierce: ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war -- ...

- 320. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...

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