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Ambrose Bierce's Definitions in The Devil's Dictionary Q, R

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From: CCPA Monitor
Date: 20060601
Author:Bierce, Ambrose

QUEEN: A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

QUORUM: A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it.

QUOTATION: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

QUOTIENT: A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another.

RACK: An implement used to persuade devotees of a false faith to embrace the truth.

RAILROAD: A device enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off.

RASH: ...

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