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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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BLINK, v.i.
BLINK, n. A glimpse or glance.
BLINK, n. Blink of ice, is the dazzling whiteness about the horizon, occasioned by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea.
To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the
eye.
One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly
and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine
eyne. To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to
twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
The dew was falling fast, the stars began to
blink. The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild,
etc.
To shut
out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink
the question.
To trick; to deceive.
[Scot.]
Jamieson. A glimpse
or glance.
This is the first blink that ever I had of him. Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
Sir W.
Scott.
Not a blink of light was there. The dazzling whiteness about the
horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice
blink.
Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check
them.
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