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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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BULL'Y, n. A noisy, blustering overbearing fellow, more distinguished for insolence and empty menaces, than for courage, and disposed to provoke quarrels.
BULL'Y, v.t. To insult and overbear with noise and blustering menaces.
A noisy,
blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening
and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.
Bullies seldom execute the threats they deal in. A brisk, dashing fellow.
[Slang Obs.]
Shak. Jovial and blustering; dashing.
[Slang] "Bless thee,
bully doctor." Shak. Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.
[Slang, U.S.] To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor]
to act the part of a bully toward.
For the last fortnight there have been prodigious shoals of
volunteers gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was
just signing. Syn. -- To bluster; swagger; hector; domineer. To act as a
bully.
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