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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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CAGE, v.t. To confine in a cage; to shut up, or confine.
A box or inclosure, wholly or partly
of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other
animals.
In his cage, like parrot fine and gay. A place of confinement for
malefactors
Shak.
Stone walls do not a prison make, An outer framework of
timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a
staircase.
Gwilt. A
skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball
valve.
The box, bucket, or inclosed platform
of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a
shaft.
The drum on which the
rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
The catcher's wire
mask.
To confine
in, or as in, a cage] to shut up or confine.
"Caged
and starved to death." Cowper. | ||||||||