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- 161. Ambrose Bierce: FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
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- 162. Ambrose Bierce: FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
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- 163. Ambrose Bierce: FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in f ...
- 164. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 165. Ambrose Bierce: GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust -- to which, doubtless, will be add ...
- 166. Ambrose Bierce: INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in ...
- 167. Ambrose Bierce: INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unl ...
- 168. Ambrose Bierce: INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification o ...
- 169. Ambrose Bierce: LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in t ...
- 170. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...
- 171. Ambrose Bierce: NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relati ...
- 172. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
- 173. Ambrose Bierce: OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general ine ...
- 174. Ambrose Bierce: PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obt ...
- 175. Ambrose Bierce: PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to ill ...
- 176. Ambrose Bierce: PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblan ...
- 177. Ambrose Bierce: PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never ...
- 178. Ambrose Bierce: POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old ...
- 179. Ambrose Bierce: PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In ...
- 180. Ambrose Bierce: PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by per ...
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