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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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DRAKE, n. [G., L, a duck.]
The male of the duck kind.
The drake fly.
The drake will mount steeple height into the air. Walton. Drake fly, a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling. The dark drake fly, good in August. Walton. A
dragon.
[Obs.]
Beowulf resolves to kill the drake. J. A. Harrison (Beowulf). A small piece of artillery.
[Obs.]
Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger. Clarendon. Wild oats, brome grass, or
darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and
drank.
[Prov. Eng.] Dr. Prior. | ||||||||