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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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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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1828 Definition
CRAMP, n.
CRAMP, v.t.
CRAMP, a. Difficult; knotty. [Little used.]
1913 Definition
That which confines or contracts; a
restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great
mind. Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of
fear. A device, usually of
iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone,
timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
A rectangular frame,
with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of
framework, etc.
A piece of wood having a curve
corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which
the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite
shape.
A spasmodic and painful
involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the
leg.
The cramp, divers nights, gripeth him in
his legs. Cramp bone, the patella of a sheep; -- formerly used as a charm for the cramp. Halliwell. "He could turn cramp bones into chess men." Dickens. -- Cramp ring, a ring formerly supposed to have virtue in averting or curing cramp, as having been consecrated by one of the kings of England on Good Friday. To
compress] to restrain from free action; to confine and contract;
to hinder.
The mind my be as much cramped by too much
knowledge as by ignorance. To fasten or hold with, or as with, a
cramp.
to bind together; to
unite.
The . . . fabric of universal justic is well
cramped and bolted together in all its parts. To form on a cramp; as, to
cramp boot legs.
To afflict with cramp.
When the gout cramps my joints. To cramp the wheels of wagon, to turn the front wheels out of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be against the body of the wagon. Knotty; difficult.
[R.]
Care being taken not to add any of the
cramp reasons for this opinion. A paralysis
of certain muscles due to excessive use; as, writer's cramp;
milker's cramp, etc.
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