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- 241. Ambrose Bierce: ARRAYED, pp. Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter hanged to a ...
- 242. Ambrose Bierce: BERENICE'S HAIR, n. A constellation (_Coma Berenices_) named in honor of one who ...
- 243. Ambrose Bierce: BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become respon ...
- 244. Ambrose Bierce: CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel.
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- 245. Ambrose Bierce: CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance -- ...
- 246. Ambrose Bierce: COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversa ...
- 247. Ambrose Bierce: CONSUL, n. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure and office ...
- 248. Ambrose Bierce: DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy i ...
- 249. Ambrose Bierce: ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caus ...
- 250. Ambrose Bierce: EPAULET, n. An ornamented badge, serving to distinguish a military officer from ...
- 251. Ambrose Bierce: EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death hav ...
- 252. Ambrose Bierce: FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of r ...
- 253. Ambrose Bierce: GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The ...
- 254. Ambrose Bierce: HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...
- 255. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...
- 256. Ambrose Bierce: INFLUENCE, n. In politics, a visionary _quo_ given in exchange for a substantial ...
- 257. Ambrose Bierce: INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we ...
- 258. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 259. Ambrose Bierce: LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that ...
- 260. Ambrose Bierce: LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate i ...
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