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• Miss, n.: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MISS: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.
• TRINITY, n. In the multiplex theism of certain Christian churches, three entirely distinct deities consistent with only one.
  Subordinate deities of the polytheistic faith, such as devils and angels, are not dowered with the power of combination, and must urge individually their clames to adoration and propitiation....
• INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists.
  Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both -- as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man....
• YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name
  _jugum_, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language -- a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy....
• MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune.
  The plague as we of to-day have the happiness to know it is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness....