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INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

Ambrose Bierce
Iron, Water, Intellectual
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.130, University of Georgia Press

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

Ambrose Bierce
Water, Imagination, Novelists
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.187, 谷月社

Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.

Ambrose Bierce
Fire, Water, Buckets
Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.196, 谷月社

Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.

Ambrose Bierce
Drinking, Medicine, Water
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.185, University of Georgia Press

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