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- 61. Ambrose Bierce: CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had ...
- 62. Ambrose Bierce: COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversa ...
- 63. Ambrose Bierce: DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Gre ...
- 64. Ambrose Bierce: EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) suc ...
- 65. Ambrose Bierce: EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wish ...
- 66. Ambrose Bierce: FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
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- 67. Ambrose Bierce: FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and ...
- 68. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 69. Ambrose Bierce: FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffus ...
- 70. Ambrose Bierce: GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
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- 71. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 72. Ambrose Bierce: IMPOSITION, n. The act of blessing or consecrating by the laying on of hands -- ...
- 73. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...
- 74. Ambrose Bierce: INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are inc ...
- 75. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 76. Ambrose Bierce: LAUREL, n. The _laurus_, a vegetable dedicated to Apollo, and formerly defoliate ...
- 77. Ambrose Bierce: LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - ...
- 78. Ambrose Bierce: MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as ...
- 79. Ambrose Bierce: MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christ ...
- 80. Ambrose Bierce: NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relati ...
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