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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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FLAP, n. [L. alapa, a slap. It seems difficult to separate flap from clap, slap, flabby, lap, &c.]
FLAP, v.t.
FLAP, v.i.
A hinged leaf, as of a table or
shutter.
The motion of anything broad and loose, or
a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a
wing.
A disease in the
lips of horses.
Flap tile, a tile with a bent up portion, to turn a corner or catch a drip. -- Flap valve (Mech.), a valve which opens and shuts upon one hinged side; a clack valve. To beat with a flap; to
strike.
Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings. Pope. To move, as something broad and flaplike;
as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a
hat.
To flap in the mouth, to taunt. [Obs.] W. Cartwright. To
move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings
beating the air.
The crows flapped over by twos and threes. Lowell. To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim
of a hat, or other broad thing.
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