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Ambrose Bierce
RESPIRATOR, n. An...
RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible...
RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A...
RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the...
PROSPECT, n. An...
PROSPECT, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.
REPENTANCE, n. The...
REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation...
RETALIATION, n. The...
RETALIATION, n. The natural rock upon which is reared the Temple of Law.
Source:...
RESTITUTIONS, n. The...
RESTITUTIONS, n. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries by gift or...
ROMANCE, n. Fiction...
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is...
QUOTIENT, n. A...
QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of...
REPRESENTATIVE, n. In...
REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of...
RETRIBUTION, n. A...
RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not...
RESTITUTOR, n. Benefactor;...
RESTITUTOR, n. Benefactor; philanthropist.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
RUM, n. Generically,...
RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
RANSOM, n. The...
RANSOM, n. The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller, nor can belong to the buyer. The most...
REPUBLIC, n. A...
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted...
RIBALDRY, n. Censorious...
RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.
Source: The Devil's...
RHADOMANCER, n. One...
RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a...
SACERDOTALIST, n. One...
SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the...
REALISM, n. The...
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or...
RESIGN, v.t. To...
RESIGN, v.t. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater...
RIBROASTER, n. Censorious...
RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another.
Source: The...