Ocupation: Journalist
Life: June 24, 1842 - 1914
Birthday: June 24
Death: 1914
GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.
source: Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.97, University of Georgia Press
topic: Horse, Animal, Earthquakes, Cyclones, Stags, Thunderbolts