Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-ca.1914), The Devilʼs Dictionary
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ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside.
ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne.
– Poor Isabella’s Dead, whose abdication Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation. For that performance ’twere unfair to scold her: She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her. To History she’ll be no royal riddle— Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle. G.J.
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