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- 61. Ambrose Bierce: ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth o ...
- 62. Ambrose Bierce: BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become respon ...
- 63. Ambrose Bierce: CAMEL, n. A quadruped (the _Splaypes humpidorsus_) of great value to the show bu ...
- 64. Ambrose Bierce: CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired boo ...
- 65. Ambrose Bierce: CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-b ...
- 66. Ambrose Bierce: CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy ...
- 67. Ambrose Bierce: DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided i ...
- 68. Ambrose Bierce: DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy i ...
- 69. Ambrose Bierce: DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to hims ...
- 70. Ambrose Bierce: DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a comman ...
- 71. Ambrose Bierce: ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caus ...
- 72. Ambrose Bierce: EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the l ...
- 73. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 74. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 75. Ambrose Bierce: GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a streng ...
- 76. Ambrose Bierce: HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, ...
- 77. Ambrose Bierce: HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered ...
- 78. Ambrose Bierce: HALO, n. Properly, a luminous ring encircling an astronomical body, but not infr ...
- 79. Ambrose Bierce: HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte ...
- 80. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
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