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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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BOW'ER,n. [from bow.] An anchor carried at the bow of a ship. There are generally two bowers, called first and second, great and little, or best and small.
BOW'ER, n.
BOW'ER, v.t. To embower to inclose.
BOW'ER, v.i. To lodge.
One who bows or bends.
An anchor carried at the bow of a
ship.
A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
[Obs.]
His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor. One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly
used in the game of euchre.
Right bower, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the "Joker") in the game. -- Left bower, the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value. -- Best bower or Joker, in some forms of euchre and some other games, an extra card sometimes added to the pack, which takes precedence of all others as the highest card. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a
lady's private apartment.
Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an
attractive abode or retreat.
Shenstone. B. Johnson. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made
with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady
recess.
To embower; to
inclose.
Shak. To lodge.
[Obs.]
Spenser. A young hawk, when it begins to
leave the nest.
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