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• ALLEGIANCE, n. This thing Allegiance, as I suppose, Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose, Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed.
  G....
• ARRAYED, pp. Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter hanged to a lamppost.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as distinguished from monogamy, which has but one.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.
  ) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head....
• ACCORD, n. Harmony. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• HERS, pron. His. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• IMPUNITY, n. Wealth. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• Once, adv.: Enough. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary