Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
Ambrose BierceMAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
Ambrose BierceDELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.
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