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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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BET'TY, n. [Supposed to be a cant word from the name of a maid; but qu. is it not from the root of beat or L.peto?]
An instrument to break open doors.
A
short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.
[Written also
bettee.]
The powerful betty, or the artful picklock. A name
of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a
household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.
A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw,
in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a
Florence flask.
[U. S.] Bartlett. | ||||||||