Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
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NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.Ambrose Bierce
DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
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CONFIDANT, CONFIDANTE, n. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B, confided by 'him' to C.
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IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels.
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INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
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