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The opera performer apes an ape.

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Orphan, n . A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude.

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The actor apes a man—at least in shape;

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Opera, n . A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures, and no postures but attitudes. All acting is simulation, and the word simulation is from simia , an ape; but in opera the actor takes for his model Simia audibilis (or Pithecanthropos stentor )—the ape that howls.

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Oath, n . In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

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Ocean, n . A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.

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Manna, n . A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

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Mythology, n . The body of a primitive people’s beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities, and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

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Mammon, n . The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

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Mad, adj . Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual.

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Born on June 24, 1842, in Meigs County, Ohio, Ambrose Bierce enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 and fought in some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. After the war, he moved to California, where he became an influential journalist and newspaper editor. Bierce gained fame for his scathing style and his distrust of hypocrisy and pretense. His most famous work is 'The Devil's Dictionary,' a collection of satirical and witty definitions that expose human and social flaws. His short stories, such as 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' are notable for their dark atmosphere, surprising endings, and psychological exploration. Bierce mysteriously disappeared in Mexico in 1913, while traveling to cover the Mexican Revolution, leaving behind a lasting and enigmatic literary legacy.