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• 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....
• 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: An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin.
  The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle....
• Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half. -- Ambrose Bierce: "The Devil's Dictionary
• Half a loaf is better than a whole one if there is much else.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• HELPMATE, n. A wife, or bitter half. "Now, why is yer wife called a helpmate, Pat?
  Says the priest. "Since the time 'o yer wooin' She's niver [sic] assisted in what ye were at -- For it's naught ye are ever doin'....
• HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided.
  In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halve...