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• The distinction between Freedom and Liberty is not accurately know
  naturalists have been unable to find a living specimen of either....
• POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansa
  characterized by an uncommon spread of ear, which some naturalists contend gave him the power of flight, though Professors Morse and Whitney, pursuing independent lines of thought, have ingeniously pointed out that had he possessed it he would have gone elsewhere....
• Impartial, adj.: Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting opinions.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design.
  The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly....
• UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.
  This important distinction between ubiquity and omnipresence was not clear to the mediaeval Church and there was much bloodshed about it....
• PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation and lived under conditions not easily conceived.
  Melsius believed them to have inhabited "the Void" and to have been something intermediate between fishes and birds....
• INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
  Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner....