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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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COLT, n.
COLT, v.i. To frisk, riot or frolic, like a colt; to be licentious.
COLT, v.t. To befool.
The young of
the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes
distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female.
Cf. Foal.
* In sporting circles it is usual to reckon the age of colts from some arbitrary date, as from January 1, or May 1, next preceding the birth of the animal. A young, foolish fellow.
Shak. A short knotted rope formerly used as
an instrument of punishment in the navy.
Ham. Nav.
Encyc.
Colt's tooth, an imperfect or superfluous tooth in young horses. -- To cast one's colt's tooth, to cease from youthful wantonness. "Your colt's tooth is not cast yet." Shak. -- To have a colt's tooth, to be wanton. Chaucer. To frisk
or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
[Obs.]
They shook off their bridles and began to
colt. To horse; to get with young.
Shak. To befool.
[Obs.]
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