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• IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
  The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole....
• Idiot, n.: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• 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....
• MAIDEN, n. A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and views that madden to crime.
  The genus has a wide geographical distribution, being found wherever sought and deplored wherever found....
• MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment.
  He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals....
• HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spiri
  he place where the dead live. Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not synonymous with our Hell, many of the most respectable men of antiquity residing there in a very comfortable kind of way....
• BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become responsible for that entrusted to another to a third.
  Philippe of Orleans wishing to appoint one of his favorites, a dissolute nobleman, to a high office, asked him what security he would be able to give....
• OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possessio
  it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities....