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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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GAP, n. [See Gape and Gab.]
To stop a gap, to secure a weak point; to repair a defect.
To stand in the gap, to expose one's self for the protection of something; to make defense against any assailing danger. Ezek. 22.
An opening in anything made by
breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a
passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a
vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.
Miseries ensued by the opening of that gap. Knolles. It would make a great gap in your own honor. Shak. Gap lathe (Mach.), a turning lathe with a deep notch in the bed to admit of turning a short object of large diameter. -- To stand in the gap, to expose one's self for the protection of something; to make defense against any assailing danger; to take the place of a fallen defender or supporter. -- To stop a gap, to secure a weak point; to repair a defect. To
notch, as a sword or knife.
To make an opening in; to
breach.
Their masses are gapp'd with our grape. Tennyson. The vertical distance between two superposed surfaces, esp. in a
biplane.
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