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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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BUT'TON, n. but'n.
BUT'TON, v.t. but'n. To fasten with a button, or buttons; to inclose, or make secure with buttons; often followed with up, as to button up a waistcoat.
A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
A catch, of various forms and materials, used to
fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one
part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other;
-- used also for ornament.
A bud; a germ of a plant.
Shak. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and
elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a
door.
A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel
or in a crucible, after fusion.
Button hook, a hook for catching a button and
drawing it through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves. --
Button shell (Zoöl.), a small, univalve
marine shell of the genus Rotella. -- Button
snakeroot. (Bot.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or
make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to
the throat in a tight green coat. To dress or clothe.
[Obs.]
Shak. To be fastened by a
button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
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