Related:

• PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin.
  The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle....
• Hippogriff, n.: An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin.
  The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle....
• AGITATOR, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors -- to dislodge the worms.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Pig, n.: An animal (Porcus omnivorous) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite
  which, however, is inferior in scope, for it balks at pig....
• ACCORD, n. Harmony. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary