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Ambrose Bierce
INTRODUCTION, n. A...
INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his...
INDIGESTION, n. A...
INDIGESTION, n. A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and...
JEWS-HARP, n. An...
JEWS-HARP, n. An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth and trying to brush it away with the...
INSURRECTION, n. An...
INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad...
INGRATE, n. One...
INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
KILT, n. A...
KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
INFALAPSARIAN, n. One...
INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to -- in opposition...
KISS, n. A...
KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for bliss. It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of...
J, n. A...
J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, jacere, to throw, because...
INSCRIPTION, n. Something...
INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing -- mostly memorial, intended to commemorate the fame of some...
KING, n. A...
KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a crowned head, although he never wears a crown and has usually no...
INFIDEL, n. In...
INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who...
KLEPTOMANIAC, n. A...
KLEPTOMANIAC, n. A rich thief.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
-- Ambrose...
JEALOUS, adj. Unduly...
JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth...
KILL, v.t. To...
KILL, v.t. To create a vacancy without nominating a successor.
Source: The Devil's...
KNOWLEDGE, n. --...
KNOWLEDGE, n. -- The small body of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
Source:...
INSURANCE, n. An...
INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction...
LAST, n. A...
LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of...
JUSTICE, n. A...
JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for...
LAUREATE, adj. Crowned...
LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court,...