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• Cabbage, n.: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• cabbage, n: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...
• CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
  The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden....
• ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage.
  A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though from this view of the matter there was once a considerably dissent among the learned, some holding that the posture of the body was immaterial....
• PALM, n. A species of tree having several varieties, of which the familiar "itching palm" (_Palma hominis_) is most widely distributed and sedulously cultivated.
  This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver....
• Ocean, n.: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...