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- 221. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...

- 222. Ambrose Bierce: FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into ...

- 223. Ambrose Bierce: FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane liter ...

- 224. Ambrose Bierce: GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...

- 225. Ambrose Bierce: GRAMMAR, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self ...

- 226. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 227. Ambrose Bierce: HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are bro ...

- 228. Ambrose Bierce: I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first ...

- 229. Ambrose Bierce: IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affair ...

- 230. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...

- 231. Ambrose Bierce: INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unl ...

- 232. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...

- 233. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...

- 234. Ambrose Bierce: KEEP, v.t.
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- 235. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...

- 236. Ambrose Bierce: LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.
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- 237. Ambrose Bierce: LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. ...

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

- 239. Ambrose Bierce: LOW-BRED, adj. "Raised" instead of brought up.

- 240. Ambrose Bierce: MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conformi ...

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