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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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GOUGE, n. gouj. A round hollow chisel, used to cut holes, channels or grooves in wood or stone.
GOUGE, v.t. gouj. To scoop out with a gouge.
A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical
blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood,
stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning
wood.
A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or
gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
An incising tool which cuts forms or
blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.
Knight. Soft material lying
between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.
Raymond. The act of scooping out with a gouge, or
as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a
gouge.
Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an
impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.
[Slang, U. S.]
Gouge bit, a boring bit, shaped like a gouge. To scoop out with a
gouge.
To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb
nail] to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb.
[K
S.]
* A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly practiced in the brutal frays of desperadoes in some parts of the United States. To cheat in a bargain; to chouse.
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