1995 Quotations with Word.
- 161. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...
- 162. Ambrose Bierce: HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, ...
- 163. Ambrose Bierce: HASH, x. There is no definition for this word -- nobody knows what hash is.
- 164. Ambrose Bierce: HEAT, n.
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- 165. Ambrose Bierce: HELPMATE, n. A wife, or bitter half.
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- 166. Ambrose Bierce: I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first ...
- 167. Ambrose Bierce: IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affair ...
- 168. Ambrose Bierce: IMPROBABILITY, n.
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- 169. Ambrose Bierce: INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of test ...
- 170. Ambrose Bierce: INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. A ...
- 171. Ambrose Bierce: INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are inc ...
- 172. Ambrose Bierce: INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitte ...
- 173. Ambrose Bierce: KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to ...
- 174. Ambrose Bierce: LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word ...
- 175. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 176. Ambrose Bierce: LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in t ...
- 177. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 178. Ambrose Bierce: LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, ...
- 179. Ambrose Bierce: LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative ...
- 180. Ambrose Bierce: MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This defin ...
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