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• NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi.
  The leader of the school is Tolstoi. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government.
  In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to....
• TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.
  Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was....
• HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like
  ometimes called, also, a hen, or cat. Old witches, sorceresses, etc....
• PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• FRANKALMOIGNE, n. The tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands on condition of praying for the soul of the donor.
  In mediaeval times many of the wealthiest fraternities obtained their estates in this simple and cheap manner, and once when Henry VIII of England sent an officer to confiscate certain vast possessions which a fraternity of monks held by frankalmoigne, "What!...
• UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Male, n. A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex.
  The male of the human race is commonly known (to the female) as Mere Man....
• SEVERALTY, n. Separateness, as, lands in severalty, i.
  e., lands held individually, not in joint ownership....