Related:

• FLESH, n. The Second Person of the secular Trinity. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• INCUMBENT, n. A person of the liveliest interest to the outcumbents.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Incumbent, n.: Person of liveliest interest to the outcumbents.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red -- at least not on the outside.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• SCRIBBLER, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...