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• Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...
• ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war -- so called from his habit of wearing his hair short, whereas his enemy, the Cavalier, wore his long.
  There were other points of difference between them, but the fashion in hair was the fundamental cause of quarrel....
• LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not.
  Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his electio...
• AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
  An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was pouted on his lips to revive him....
• SCARABEE, n. The same as scarabaeus. He fell by his own hand Beneath the great oak tree.
  He'd traveled in a foreign land. He tried to make her understand The dance that's called the Saraband, But he called it Scarabee....