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• HERS, pron. His. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• HOUSELESS, adj. Having paid all taxes on household goods.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• REPOSE, v.i. To cease from troubling. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
  The rimer quenches his unheeded fires, The sound surceases and the sense expires....
• DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.
  He held at court a rank so high That other noblemen asked why....
• ACCORD, n. Harmony. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary