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Ambrose Bierce
AIR, n. A...
AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the...
ARDOR, n. The...
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
Source: The...
AMBITION, n. An...
AMBITION, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when...
ARENA, n. In...
ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his...
ARMOR, n. The...
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
Source:...
ALDERMAN, n. An...
ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving with a pretence of open...
BACCHUS, n. A...
BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
ARCHBISHOP, n. An...
ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.
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ARTLESSNESS, n. A...
ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring...
ARREST, v.t. Formally...
ARREST, v.t. Formally to detain one accused of unusualness.
Source: The Devil's...
APHORISM, n. Predigested...
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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BATH, n. A...
BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been...
ARCHITECT, n. One...
ARCHITECT, n. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
AUSTRALIA, n. A...
AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably...
ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously...
ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity...
AUCTIONEER, n. The...
AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his...
BEG, v. To...
BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be...
ART, n. This...
ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as One day a wag --...
BATTLE, n. A...
BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the...
ASS, n. A...
ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.
Source: The Devil's...