Related:

• RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ACCORD, n. Harmony. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• IMPUNITY, n. Wealth. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• TRUCE, n. Friendship. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• FORCE, n. "Force is but might," the teacher said -- "That definition's just.
  The boy said naught but through instead, Remembering his pounded head...
• ACCORDION, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• BILLINGSGATE, n. The invective of an opponent. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• BRUTE, n. See HUSBAND. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary