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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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CORK, n. [G., L., bark, rind, shell, crust.]
CORK, v.t. To stop bottles or casks with corks; to confine or make fast with a cork.
The outer layer of
the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which
stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See
Cutose.
A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut
out of cork.
A mass of tabular cells formed in any
kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
* Cork is sometimes used wrongly for calk, calker; calkin, a sharp piece of iron on the shoe of a horse or ox. Cork jackets, a jacket having thin pieces of cork inclosed within canvas, and used to aid in swimming. -- Cork tree (Bot.), the species of oak (Quercus Suber of Southern Europe) whose bark furnishes the cork of commerce. To stop
with a cork, as a bottle.
To furnish or fit with cork] to raise
on cork.
Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's
pace. * To cork is sometimes used erroneously for to calk, to furnish the shoe of a horse or ox with sharp points, and also in the meaning of cutting with a calk. | ||||||||