Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose BierceEconomy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
Ambrose BierceMolecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.
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