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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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BILGE, n. [A different orthography of bulge, and belly, a protuberance.]
BILGE, v.i. To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge. The term is used also when a ship has some of her timbers struck off by a rock or an anchor, and springs a leak.
The protuberant part of a cask,
which is usually in the middle.
That part of a ship's hull or
bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest
if aground.
Bilge water.
Bilge free (Naut.), stowed in such a way that the bilge is clear of everything; -- said of a cask. -- Bilge pump, a pump to draw the bilge water from the gold of a ship. -- Bilge water (Naut.), water which collects in the bilge or bottom of a ship or other vessel. It is often allowed to remain till it becomes very offensive. -- Bilge ways, the timbers which support the cradle of a ship upon the ways, and which slide upon the launching ways in launching the vessel. To
suffer a fracture in the bilge] to spring a leak by a fracture in the
bilge.
To bulge.
To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a
ship or other vessel).
To cause to bulge.
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