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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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CLOD, n.
CLOD, v.i. To collect into concretions, or a thick mass; to coagulate; as clodded gore.
CLOD, v.t. To pelt with clods.
A lump or mass, especially of earth,
turf, or clay.
"Clods of a slimy substance."
Carew. "Clods of iron and brass." Milton.
"Clods of blood." E. Fairfax.
The earth that casteth up from the plow a great
clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller
clod. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth
or turf.
The clod That which is earthy and of little
relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the
soul.
This cold clod of clay which we carry about
with us. A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a
dolt
Dryden. A part of the shoulder of a beef
creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See
Illust. of Beef.
To
collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot;
as, clodded gore. See Clot.
Clodded in lumps of clay. To pelt with clods.
Jonson. To throw violently; to hurl.
[Scot.] Sir W. Scott. | ||||||||