2170 Quotations with Rate.
- 141. Ambrose Bierce: HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered ...
- 142. Ambrose Bierce: HALO, n. Properly, a luminous ring encircling an astronomical body, but not infr ...
- 143. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 144. Ambrose Bierce: HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to ill ...
- 145. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
- 146. Ambrose Bierce: IMPOSITION, n. The act of blessing or consecrating by the laying on of hands -- ...
- 147. Ambrose Bierce: INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability, the com ...
- 148. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
- 149. Ambrose Bierce: INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in ...
- 150. Ambrose Bierce: INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object o ...
- 151. Ambrose Bierce: INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kin ...
- 152. Ambrose Bierce: JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State ...
- 153. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...
- 154. Ambrose Bierce: KEEP, v.t.
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- 155. Ambrose Bierce: LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus _Lactuca_, "Wherewith," says that pious gastron ...
- 156. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 157. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
- 158. Ambrose Bierce: MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of natur ...
- 159. Ambrose Bierce: MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no ...
- 160. Ambrose Bierce: PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obt ...
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