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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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BLOOM n.
BLOOM, v.i. To produce or yield blossoms; to flower.
BLOOM, v.t. To put forth as blossoms.
BLOOM, n. [L. plumbum, lead, properly a lump.]
A mass of iron that has passed the blomary, or undergone the first hammering.
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud;
flowers, collectively.
The rich blooms of the tropics. The opening of flowers in general; the state of
blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in
bloom.
"Sight of vernal bloom." Milton. A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor;
an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms;
as, the bloom of youth.
Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter
bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain
growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a
glow.
A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom
upon it. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes
takes upon the surface of a picture.
A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which
appears on well-tanned leather.
Knight. A popular term for a bright-hued
variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.
To produce or yield blossoms] to blossom; to flower
or be in flower.
A flower which once To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and
vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by
or with flowers.
A better country blooms to view,
Beneath a brighter sky. To cause
to blossom; to make flourish.
[R.]
Charitable affection bloomed them. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or
radiant.
[R.] Milton.
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day. A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or
from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the
form of an oblong block by shingling.
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