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• PIETY, n. Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man.
  The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles....
• CANONICALS, n. The motley worm by Jesters of the Court of Heaven.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• LITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RAREBIT, n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit.
  To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that _riz-de-veau a la financiere_ is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker....
• ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Pig, n.: An animal (Porcus omnivorous) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite
  which, however, is inferior in scope, for it balks at pig....
• REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads.
  The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm....