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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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COIL, v.t. To gather, as a line or cord into a circular form; to wind into a ring, as a serpent, or a rope.
COIL, n.
To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to
coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled
itself before springing.
To encircle and hold with, or as with,
coils.
[Obs. or R.] T. Edwards. To wind itself
cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with
about or around.
You can see his flery serpents . . . A
ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other
like thing, is wound.
The wild grapevines that twisted their
coils from trec to tree. Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh;
perplexity.
A series of connected pipes in rows or
layers, as in a steam heating apparatus.
Induction coil. (Elec.) See under Induction. -- Ruhmkorff's coil (Elec.), an induction coil, sometimes so called from Ruhmkorff ((?)), a prominent manufacturer of the apparatus. A noise, tumult, bustle, or
confusion.
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