Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.
Ambrose BierceGenealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
Ambrose BiercePASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
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