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• WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Wit, n.: The salt with which the American Humorist spoils his cookery .
  .. by leaving it out. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• SEVERALTY, n. Separateness, as, lands in severalty, i.
  e., lands held individually, not in joint ownership....
• But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 111...
• Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind
  His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way....
• HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him.
  For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk....
• POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansa
  characterized by an uncommon spread of ear, which some naturalists contend gave him the power of flight, though Professors Morse and Whitney, pursuing independent lines of thought, have ingeniously pointed out that had he possessed it he would have gone elsewhere....