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- 161. Ambrose Bierce: FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane liter ...
- 162. Ambrose Bierce: GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied ...
- 163. Ambrose Bierce: GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior pa ...
- 164. Ambrose Bierce: GRAPE, n.
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- 165. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 166. Ambrose Bierce: HOSTILITY, n. A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's over ...
- 167. Ambrose Bierce: ICHOR, n. A fluid that serves the gods and goddesses in place of blood.
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- 168. Ambrose Bierce: INCUMBENT, n. A person of the liveliest interest to the outcumbents.
- 169. Ambrose Bierce: INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests.
- 170. Ambrose Bierce: INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we ...
- 171. Ambrose Bierce: INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kin ...
- 172. Ambrose Bierce: LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - ...
- 173. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 174. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
- 175. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christ ...
- 176. Ambrose Bierce: OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling an ...
- 177. Ambrose Bierce: OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
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- 178. Ambrose Bierce: OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has bee ...
- 179. Ambrose Bierce: PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lu ...
- 180. Ambrose Bierce: PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the wh ...
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