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- 381. Ambrose Bierce: ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in con ...
- 382. Ambrose Bierce: EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once ...
- 383. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 384. Ambrose Bierce: FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited t ...
- 385. Ambrose Bierce: FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
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- 386. Ambrose Bierce: FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best a ...
- 387. Ambrose Bierce: FLOP, v. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The mos ...
- 388. Ambrose Bierce: FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffus ...
- 389. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...
- 390. Ambrose Bierce: FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into ...
- 391. Ambrose Bierce: FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of r ...
- 392. Ambrose Bierce: FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane liter ...
- 393. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 394. Ambrose Bierce: GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, comm ...
- 395. Ambrose Bierce: GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The ...
- 396. Ambrose Bierce: GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process ...
- 397. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 398. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...
- 399. Ambrose Bierce: HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the b ...
- 400. Ambrose Bierce: HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been ...
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