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Ambrose Bierce
MEANDER, n. To...
MEANDER, n. To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the ancient name of a river about one hundred and fifty...
MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism...
MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to...
MUSTANG, n. An...
MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English...
MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining...
MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found...
MONEY, n. A...
MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a...
METROPOLIS, n. A...
METROPOLIS, n. A stronghold of provincialism.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
MIND, n. A...
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain...
MYTHOLOGY, n. The...
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so...
MARTYR, n. One...
MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.
MONUMENT, n. A...
MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be...
MINISTER, n. An...
MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign...
MISCREANT, n. A...
MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present...
NECTAR, n. A...
NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern...
MEDICINE, n. A...
MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
Source: The...
MUGWUMP, n. In...
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of...
MISS, n. The...
MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Let us be consistent...
MOUTH, n. In...
MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.
NEWTONIAN, adj. Pertaining...
NEWTONIAN, adj. Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall...
MEERSCHAUM, n. A...
MEERSCHAUM, n. A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is made into tobacco pipes and smoked by...
MULTITUDE, n. A...
MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's...