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Ambrose Bierce
LORE, n. Learning...
LORE, n. Learning which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books,...
LOGIC, n. The...
LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human...
MARRIAGE, n. The...
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all,...
LIAR, n. A...
LIAR, n. A lawyer with a roving commission.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
MACHINATION, n. The...
MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right...
LOW-BRED, adj. Raised...
LOW-BRED, adj. Raised instead of brought up.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
LOOKING-GLASS, n. A...
LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion...
MATERIAL, adj. Having...
MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one....
LICKSPITTLE, n. A...
LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the...
MAGNIFICENT, adj. Having...
MAGNIFICENT, adj. Having a grandeur or splendor superior to that to which the spectator is accustomed, as the ears of...
MAGPIE, n. A...
MAGPIE, n. A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to...
LOVE, n. A...
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he...
MINE, adj. Belonging...
MINE, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.
Source: The Devil's...
LINEN, n. A...
LINEN, n. A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp. -- Calcraft the...
MAJESTY, n. The...
MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand...
MAIDEN, n. A...
MAIDEN, n. A young person of the unfair sex. The maiden is not altogether unpleasing to the eye, nor (without her...
LUNARIAN, n. An...
LUNARIAN, n. An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom the moon...
MIRACLE, n. An...
MIRACLE, n. An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and...
LITIGANT, n. A...
LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
MANICHEISM, n. The...
MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight...