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- 41. Ambrose Bierce: ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperat ...

- 42. Ambrose Bierce: BAAL, n. An old deity formerly much worshiped under various names. As Baal he wa ...

- 43. Ambrose Bierce: COURT FOOL, n. The plaintiff.

- 44. Ambrose Bierce: EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of masticatio ...

- 45. Ambrose Bierce: FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider t ...

- 46. Ambrose Bierce: GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The ...

- 47. Ambrose Bierce: GREAT, adj.
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- 48. Ambrose Bierce: HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax.
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- 49. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...

- 50. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...

- 51. Ambrose Bierce: INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in ...

- 52. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...

- 53. Ambrose Bierce: LAW, n.
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- 54. Ambrose Bierce: LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word ...

- 55. Ambrose Bierce: LIBERTY, n. One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
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- 56. Ambrose Bierce: MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open an ...

- 57. Ambrose Bierce: MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as ...

- 58. Ambrose Bierce: MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made ...

- 59. Ambrose Bierce: MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the Ame ...

- 60. Ambrose Bierce: OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critic ...

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