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Ambrose Bierce
RADIUM, n. A...
RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool...
RECREATION, n. A...
RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
Source:...
PREFERENCE, n. A...
PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than...
RADICALISM, n. The...
RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.
REAR, n. In...
REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to...
RAILROAD, n. The...
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better...
RECTOR, n. In...
RECTOR, n. In the Church of England, the Third Person of the parochial Trinity, the Cruate and the Vicar being the...
PREJUDICE, n. A...
PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
Source: The...
RAMSHACKLE, adj. Pertaining...
RAMSHACKLE, adj. Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as the Normal American. Most of the...
RECONCILIATION, n. A...
RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the...
RATTLESNAKE, n. Our...
RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, Homo ventrambulans.
Source: The Devil's...
REFERENDUM, n. A...
REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public...
PRESBYTERIAN, n. One...
PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called...
RANK, n. Relative...
RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.
Source: The Devil's...
REDRESS, n. Reparation...
REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
REACH, n. The...
REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify...
REFLECTION, n. An...
REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and...
PRESCRIPTION, n. A...
PRESCRIPTION, n. A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the...
REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance...
REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom...
RENOWN, n. A...
RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame -- a little more supportable than the one and a little...