Ambrose Bierce

ROSTRUM, n. In...

ROSTRUM, n. In...

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office...

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SLANG, n. The...

SLANG, n. The...

SLANG, n. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator...

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REPORTER, n. A...

REPORTER, n. A...

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of...

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RUBBISH, n. Worthless...

RUBBISH, n. Worthless...

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes...

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ROPE, n. An...

ROPE, n. An...

ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and...

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RUSSIAN, n. A...

RUSSIAN, n. A...

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

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SPOOKER, n. A...

SPOOKER, n. A...

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of...

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RESPECTABILITY, n. The...

RESPECTABILITY, n. The...

RESPECTABILITY, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.

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SABBATH, n. A...

SABBATH, n. A...

SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on...

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RUIN, v. To...

RUIN, v. To...

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

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SAW, n. A...

SAW, n. A...

SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a...

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TABLE D'HOTE, n....

TABLE D'HOTE, n....

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for...

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REVEILLE, n. A...

REVEILLE, n. A...

REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses...

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SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A...

SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A...

SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall of an elevator, or cage, in case of an...

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RUMOR, n. A...

RUMOR, n. A...

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

Source: The Devil's...

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SUFFRAGE, n. Expression...

SUFFRAGE, n. Expression...

SUFFRAGE, n. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege...

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TEETOTALER, n. One...

TEETOTALER, n. One...

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably...

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REVELATION, n. A...

REVELATION, n. A...

REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the...

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SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among...

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among...

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar...

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SAINT, n. A...

SAINT, n. A...

SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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