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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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FOR'AGE, n. [L. voro.]
FOR'AGE, v.i.
FOR'AGE, v.t. To strip of provisions for horses, &c.
The act of foraging; search for provisions,
etc.
He [the lion] from forage will incline to play. Shak. One way a band select from forage drives Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. Marshall. Food of any kind for animals, especially
for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.
Dryden.
Forage cap. See under Cap. -- Forage master (Mil.), a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it. Farrow. To wander or rove in search of food] to
collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or
stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.
His most mighty father on a hill Foraging ant (Zoöl.), one of several species of ants of the genus Eciton, very abundant in tropical America, remarkable for marching in vast armies in search of food. -- Foraging cap, a forage cap. -- Foraging party, a party sent out after forage. To strip of
provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.
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