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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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COCKLE, n. A plant or weed that grows among corn, the cornrose, a species of Agrostemma. It is also applied to the Lolium or darnel.
COCKLE, n.
COCKLE, v.i. or t. To contract into wrinkles; to shrink, pucker, or wrinkle, as cloth.
A
bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus
Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for
food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other
genera.
A cockleshell.
The mineral black tourmaline or
schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners.
Raymond. The fire chamber of a furnace.
[Eng.] Knight. A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
Knight. The dome of a heating furnace.
Knight.
Cockle hat, a hat ornamented with a cockleshell, the badge of a pilgrim. Shak. -- Cockle stairs, winding or spiral stairs. To
cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth
after a wetting.
Cockling sea, waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion. Ham. Nav. Encyc. A plant or weed that grows
among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
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