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Ambrose Bierce's definitions in The Devil's Dictionary

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From: CCPA Monitor
Date: 20050201
Author:Anonymous

BACCHUS: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

BACKBITE: To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

BAROMETER: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

BATTLE: A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

BIGOT: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

BIRTH: The first and direst of all disasters.

BORE: A person who talks when you want him to listen.

BOUNDARY: In geography, an imaginary line between two nations, ...

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