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• BASILISK, n. The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg of a cock.
  The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal....
• Mythology, n.: The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• mythology, n: The body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth
  he perigee of his eccentric orbit. When David said...
• POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent.
  Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer....
• PYRRHONISM, n. An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor.
  It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism....
• QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass.
  This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence....