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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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BUOY, n. A close empty cask, or a block of wood or cork, fastened by a rope to an anchor,and floating on the water, to show where the anchor is situated. Buoys are of various kinds, as can-buoys, in the form of a cone; nun-buoys, which are large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end; cable-buoys, empty casks,employed to buoy up the cable, in rocky anchorage. Buoys are used also as marks, to point out the situation of rocks, shoals, or a channel.
To stream the buoy, is to let it fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor.
A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom,
to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the
water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
Anchor buoy, a buoy attached to, or marking the position of, an anchor. -- Bell buoy, a large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be rung by the motion of the waves. -- Breeches buoy. See under Breeches. -- Cable buoy, an empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage. -- Can buoy, a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron, usually conical or pear-shaped. -- Life buoy, a float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to save them. -- Nut or Nun buoy, a buoy large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end. -- To stream the buoy, to let the anchor buoy fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor. -- Whistling buoy, a buoy fitted with a whistle that is blown by the action of the waves. To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or
air] to keep afloat; -- with up.
To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking
into ruin or despondency.
Those old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous
mass of his nobility, wealth, and title. To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys;
as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a
channel.
Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not
buoyed by this floating weed. To float; to rise like a
buoy.
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