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• FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence.
  A term of contempt. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (_Musca maledicta_).
  The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us....
• HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spiri
  he place where the dead live. Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not synonymous with our Hell, many of the most respectable men of antiquity residing there in a very comfortable kind of way....
• SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.
  One of the most illustrious spookers of our time is Mr....
• SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence.
  It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death....
• UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.
  A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jeste...