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• LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original.
  It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist....
• CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiatio
  and who followed the primitive economic maxim, "Every man his own horse....
• Interpreter, n.: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• BRUTE, n. See HUSBAND. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• BAAL, n. An old deity formerly much worshiped under various names.
  As Baal he was popular with the Phoenicians; as Belus or Bel he had the honor to be served by the priest Berosus, who wrote the famous account of the Deluge...
• GALLOWS, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven.
  In this country the gallows is chiefly remarkable for the number of persons who escape it....