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- 81. Ambrose Bierce: GREAT, adj.
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- 82. Ambrose Bierce: INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in ...
- 83. Ambrose Bierce: INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chi ...
- 84. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 85. Ambrose Bierce: NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The lea ...
- 86. Ambrose Bierce: OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied th ...
- 87. Ambrose Bierce: PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious succes ...
- 88. Ambrose Bierce: PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the ...
- 89. Ambrose Bierce: POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old ...
- 90. Ambrose Bierce: REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Speci ...
- 91. Ambrose Bierce: RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and ...
- 92. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...
- 93. Ambrose Bierce: ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war -- ...
- 94. Ambrose Bierce: SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial ...
- 95. Ambrose Bierce: SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authen ...
- 96. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 97. Ambrose Bierce: TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless c ...
- 98. Ambrose Bierce: TROGLODYTE, n. Specifically, a cave-dweller of the paleolithic period, after the ...
- 99. Ambrose Bierce: TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (_Glossina morsitans_) whose bite i ...
- 100. Ambrose Bierce: UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another ...
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