AB : Ambrose Bierce
Am : New York American
Ar : Argonaut
AHD : The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (3rd ed., 1992)
C : The Cynic’s Word Book (1906)
Co : Cosmopolitan
CW : The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (12 vols., 1909-12)
D : The Devil’s Dictionary (vol. 7 of CW, 1911)
Dx : typesetting copy of D
E : San Francisco Examiner
FD : The Fiend’s Delight (1873)
Fi : Figaro
Fu : Fun
J : New York Journal
ND : Nuggets and Dust (1873)
NL : San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser
NYPL : New York Public Library
OED : Oxford English Dictionary (1933 ed.)
SS : A Sole Survivor (1998)
W : Wasp
WR : Write It Right (1909)