958 Quotations with Used.
- 61. Ambrose Bierce: DAMN, v. A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning of which is ...
- 62. Ambrose Bierce: EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus a ...
- 63. Ambrose Bierce: EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much us ...
- 64. Ambrose Bierce: ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caus ...
- 65. Ambrose Bierce: EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the ...
- 66. Ambrose Bierce: EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture ...
- 67. Ambrose Bierce: FOREFINGER, n. The finger commonly used in pointing out two malefactors.
- 68. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...
- 69. Ambrose Bierce: FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into ...
- 70. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 71. Ambrose Bierce: GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...
- 72. Ambrose Bierce: HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble office ...
- 73. Ambrose Bierce: HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally ab ...
- 74. Ambrose Bierce: INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chi ...
- 75. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 76. Ambrose Bierce: LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and ...
- 77. Ambrose Bierce: LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - ...
- 78. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 79. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 80. Ambrose Bierce: LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, ...
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