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- 181. Ambrose Bierce: EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By ...
- 182. Ambrose Bierce: FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an op ...
- 183. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 184. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...
- 185. Ambrose Bierce: FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person -- a method by which a ...
- 186. Ambrose Bierce: FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of r ...
- 187. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 188. Ambrose Bierce: GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a streng ...
- 189. Ambrose Bierce: GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good r ...
- 190. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 191. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...
- 192. Ambrose Bierce: HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are bro ...
- 193. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
- 194. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...
- 195. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 196. Ambrose Bierce: INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unl ...
- 197. Ambrose Bierce: INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we ...
- 198. Ambrose Bierce: IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigator ...
- 199. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 200. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...
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