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- 501. Ambrose Bierce: ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, ...

- 502. Ambrose Bierce: BARRACK, n. A house in which soldiers enjoy a portion of that of which it is the ...

- 503. Ambrose Bierce: BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become respon ...

- 504. Ambrose Bierce: BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, sepa ...

- 505. Ambrose Bierce: CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
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- 506. Ambrose Bierce: CLIO, n. One of the nine Muses. Clio's function was to preside over history -- w ...

- 507. Ambrose Bierce: CONSULT, v.i. To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided on.

- 508. Ambrose Bierce: DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise a ...

- 509. Ambrose Bierce: DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided i ...

- 510. Ambrose Bierce: DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over anoth ...

- 511. Ambrose Bierce: DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was i ...

- 512. Ambrose Bierce: DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Aff ...

- 513. Ambrose Bierce: DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are ...

- 514. Ambrose Bierce: DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the ...

- 515. Ambrose Bierce: DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if p ...

- 516. Ambrose Bierce: EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of anot ...

- 517. Ambrose Bierce: EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus a ...

- 518. Ambrose Bierce: EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same o ...

- 519. Ambrose Bierce: ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another ...

- 520. Ambrose Bierce: EMANCIPATION, n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism ...

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