1751 Quotations with True.
- 141. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 142. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...
- 143. Ambrose Bierce: MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as ...
- 144. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
- 145. Ambrose Bierce: OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running a ...
- 146. Ambrose Bierce: OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had b ...
- 147. Ambrose Bierce: PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
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- 148. Ambrose Bierce: QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words e ...
- 149. Ambrose Bierce: RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, ...
- 150. Ambrose Bierce: RESIGN, v.t. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for ...
- 151. Ambrose Bierce: ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In ...
- 152. Ambrose Bierce: SANDLOTTER, n. A vertebrate mammal holding the political views of Denis Kearney, ...
- 153. Ambrose Bierce: SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familia ...
- 154. Ambrose Bierce: SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certa ...
- 155. Ambrose Bierce: SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through s ...
- 156. Ambrose Bierce: SMITHAREEN, n. A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain. The word is used variou ...
- 157. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 158. Ambrose Bierce: SYMBOLIC, adj. Pertaining to symbols and the use and interpretation of symbols.
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- 159. Ambrose Bierce: TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the followin ...
- 160. Ambrose Bierce: WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction t ...
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