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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
FETCH, v.t.
Judges 20.
FETCH, v.i. To move or turn; as, to fetch about.
FETCH, n. A stratagem, by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice; as a fetch of wit.
1913 Definition
To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from
whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to
get.
Time will run back and fetch the age of gold. Milton. He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bred in thine hand. 1 Kings xvii. 11, 12. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell
for.
Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices. Macaulay. To recall from a swoon; to revive; --
sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
Fetching men again when they swoon. Bacon. To reduce; to throw.
The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. South. To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to
make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a
compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.
I'll fetch a turn about the garden. Shak. He fetches his blow quick and sure. South. To bring or get within reach by going; to
reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
Meantine flew our ships, and straight we
fetched To cause to come; to bring to a particular
state.
They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. W. Barnes. To fetch a compass (Naut.), to make a
sircuit; to take a circuitious route going to a place. --
To fetch a pump, to make it draw water by
pouring water into the top and working the handle. -- To
fetch headway or sternway (Naut.),
to move ahead or astern. -- To fetch out,
to develop. "The skill of the polisher fetches out
the colors [of marble]" Addison. -- To fetch
up. To bring one's self;
to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch
to windward.
Totten.
To fetch away (Naut.), to break loose; to roll slide to leeward. -- To fetch and carry, to serve obsequiously, like a trained spaniel. A
stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which
one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an
artifice.
Every little fetch of wit and criticism. South. The apparation of a living person; a
wraith.
The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp. Dickens. Fetch candle, a light seen at night, superstitiously believed to portend a person's death. | ||||||||
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