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Ambrose Bierce
PEDESTRIAN, n. The...
PEDESTRIAN, n. The variable (an audible) part of the roadway for an automobile.
PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having...
PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on...
PICKANINNY, n. The...
PICKANINNY, n. The young of the Procyanthropos, or Americanus dominans. It is small, black and charged with political...
PLOW, n. An...
PLOW, n. An implement that cries aloud for hands accustomed to the pen.
Source: The...
PLAUDITS, n. Coins...
PLAUDITS, n. Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and devour it.
PEDIGREE, n. The...
PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a...
POCKET, n. The...
POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without...
PICTURE, n. A...
PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
PLUNDER, v. To...
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest...
PLEASE, v. To...
PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.
Source: The...
PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking...
PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place...
PRAY, v. To...
PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly...
PIE, n. An...
PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
Source: The...
POLITICIAN, n. An...
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he...
PLEBISCITE, n. A...
PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.
Source: The...
PIG, n. An...
PIG, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite,...
PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly...
PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing...
PIRACY, n. Commerce...
PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
Source: The...
PORTABLE, adj. Exposed...
PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.
POLICE, n. An...
POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.
Source: The Devil's...