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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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BURR, n. The lobe or lap of the ear.
Burr-pump, or bilge-pump. A pump, having a staff of 6,7 or 8 feet long with a bar of wood to which the leather is nailed,which serves instead of a box. This staff is worked by men who pull it up and down, with a rope fastened to the middle of it.
A prickly seed vessel. See
Bur, 1.
The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting
or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough
neck left on a bullet in casting.
The graver, in plowing furrows in the surface of the copper,
raises corresponding ridges or burrs. A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet
by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged
down.
A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below
the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.
The lobe or lap of the ear.
A guttural
pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity
of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often
called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside,
burr.
The knot at the bottom of an antler. See
Bur,
To speak with burr] to make a hoarse or guttural
murmur.
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