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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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BUFF'ET, n. A cupboard, or set of shelves, for plates, glass, china and other like furniture. It was formerly and is still in some parts of the country, an apartment erected on one side of a room; but in more fashionable houses,it has been laid aside, and a side board substituted, which is now considered as the buffet. But as far as my knowledge extends, the name has become, in a great measure, obsolete, except among the common people,by whom it is pronounced bofat.
BUFF'ET, n. A blow with the fist; a box on the ear or face; a slap.
BUFF'ET, v.t. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat.
BUFF'ET, v.i. To exercise or play at boxing.
A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or
fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a
sideboard.
Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a
railroad station, or place of public gathering.
A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a
cuff.
When on his cheek a buffet fell. A blow from any source, or that which affects
like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse
action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.
Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to
brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay. Fortune's buffets and rewards. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or
counter.
Go fetch us a light buffet. To strike with the hand or fist]
to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.
They spit in his face and buffeted him. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly;
to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the
billows.
The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your
own, instead of being buffeted about the world. To deaden the sound of
(bells) by muffling the clapper.
To
exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to
contend.
If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for
her favors, I could lay on like a butcher. To make one's way by blows or
struggling.
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