1995 Quotations with Word.
- 181. Ambrose Bierce: MEANDER, n. To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the ancient name of ...
- 182. Ambrose Bierce: MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity c ...
- 183. Ambrose Bierce: MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the wor ...
- 184. Ambrose Bierce: MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are ...
- 185. Ambrose Bierce: MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the der ...
- 186. Ambrose Bierce: MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who nev ...
- 187. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
- 188. Ambrose Bierce: OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no s ...
- 189. Ambrose Bierce: OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had b ...
- 190. Ambrose Bierce: OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedne ...
- 191. Ambrose Bierce: PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obt ...
- 192. Ambrose Bierce: PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A ...
- 193. Ambrose Bierce: PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.
- 194. Ambrose Bierce: PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these dispu ...
- 195. Ambrose Bierce: QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words e ...
- 196. Ambrose Bierce: RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fra ...
- 197. Ambrose Bierce: REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and hono ...
- 198. Ambrose Bierce: REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutio ...
- 199. Ambrose Bierce: REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tem ...
- 200. Ambrose Bierce: RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of ...
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