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• FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships.
  It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London -- "Rubbish may be shot here....
• DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies.
  Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance...
• ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal.
  It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long....
• LUMINARY, n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiatio
  and who followed the primitive economic maxim, "Every man his own horse....
• Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• SCRIBBLER, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...