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• MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
  As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee, the most ancient and famous city of the world, female heretics were thrown to the mice....
• Hippogriff, n.: An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin.
  The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle....
• HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin.
  The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle....
• ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.
  It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous attempt to strike Dr....
• LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with.
  The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to haunt the heart were anciently believed to infest the live...
• Mythology, n.: The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origi
  early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later....
• mythology, n: The body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...