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- 561. Ambrose Bierce: LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.
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- 562. Ambrose Bierce: LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one learned in laws ...

- 563. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...

- 564. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...

- 565. Ambrose Bierce: LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient f ...

- 566. Ambrose Bierce: LUNARIAN, n. An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom ...

- 567. Ambrose Bierce: MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This defin ...

- 568. Ambrose Bierce: MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serv ...

- 569. Ambrose Bierce: MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothin ...

- 570. Ambrose Bierce: MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the h ...

- 571. Ambrose Bierce: MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as ...

- 572. Ambrose Bierce: MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are ...

- 573. Ambrose Bierce: MOLECULE, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from ...

- 574. Ambrose Bierce: MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the qual ...

- 575. Ambrose Bierce: NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

- 576. Ambrose Bierce: NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conqu ...

- 577. Ambrose Bierce: OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critic ...

- 578. Ambrose Bierce: OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no s ...

- 579. Ambrose Bierce: PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in someth ...

- 580. Ambrose Bierce: PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a sligh ...

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