Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose BierceDEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
Ambrose BierceFREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
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