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- 61. Ambrose Bierce: EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus a ...
- 62. Ambrose Bierce: EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By ...
- 63. Ambrose Bierce: EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by ...
- 64. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 65. Ambrose Bierce: FLOP, v. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The mos ...
- 66. Ambrose Bierce: GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
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- 67. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...
- 68. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...
- 69. Ambrose Bierce: LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate i ...
- 70. Ambrose Bierce: LAUREL, n. The _laurus_, a vegetable dedicated to Apollo, and formerly defoliate ...
- 71. Ambrose Bierce: LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - ...
- 72. Ambrose Bierce: LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper ...
- 73. Ambrose Bierce: LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one learned in laws ...
- 74. Ambrose Bierce: LODGER, n. A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspape ...
- 75. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 76. Ambrose Bierce: MAIDEN, n. A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and vie ...
- 77. Ambrose Bierce: MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as ...
- 78. Ambrose Bierce: MIRACLE, n. An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as bea ...
- 79. Ambrose Bierce: MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with i ...
- 80. Ambrose Bierce: MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the qual ...
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