Related:

• POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Adore, v.: To venerate expectantly.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ADAMANT, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset.
  Soluble in solicitate of gold. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• INDIGESTION, n. A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind.
  As the simple Red Man of the western wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force...
• Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly
  o dispel a source of error in an opponent. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime.
  To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude....