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- 101. Ambrose Bierce: FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
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- 102. Ambrose Bierce: GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust -- to which, doubtless, will be add ...
- 103. Ambrose Bierce: GRAMMAR, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self ...
- 104. Ambrose Bierce: GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a streng ...
- 105. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 106. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...
- 107. Ambrose Bierce: HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is ...
- 108. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
- 109. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 110. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
- 111. Ambrose Bierce: INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unl ...
- 112. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...
- 113. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 114. Ambrose Bierce: LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.
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- 115. Ambrose Bierce: LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a gre ...
- 116. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 117. Ambrose Bierce: MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made ...
- 118. Ambrose Bierce: NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relati ...
- 119. Ambrose Bierce: OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience ...
- 120. Ambrose Bierce: PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obt ...
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