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• Poker, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• EXCOMMUNICATION, n. This "excommunication" is a word In speech ecclesiastical oft heard
  And means the damning, with bell, book and candle, Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal -- A rite permitting Satan to enslave him Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him....
• YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander.
  In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK....
• ENCOMIAST, n. A special (but not particular) kind of liar.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Misfortune, n.: The kind of fortune that never misses.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary...
• Misfortune, n.: The kind of fortune that never misses.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...