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BEARD, N. The Hair That Is Commonly Cut Off By Those Who Justly Execrate The Absurd Chinese Custom Of Shaving The Head.
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BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly
execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
PLAUDITS, n. Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and devour it.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
BOTANY, n. The science of vegetables -- those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are.
It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill- smelling....
PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions.
The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead....
FOREFINGER, n. The finger commonly used in pointing out two malefactors.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
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Hand, n.: A singular instrument worn at the end of a human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
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RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...