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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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JUMP, v.i.
[This use of the word is now vulgar, and in America, I think, is confined to the single phrase, to jump in judgment.
JUMP, v.t. To pass by a leap; to pass over eagerly or hastily; as, to jump a stream. [But over is understood.]
JUMP, n. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
JUMP, n. A kind of loose or limber stays or waistcoat, worn by females.
JUMP, adv. Exactly; nicely.
A
kind of loose jacket for men.
To spring free from the ground by the
muscular action of the feet and legs] to project one's self through
the air; to spring; to bound; to leap.
Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square. Shak. To move as if by jumping; to bounce; to
jolt.
"The jumping chariots." Nahum iii. 2.
A flock of geese jump down together. Dryden. To coincide; to agree; to accord; to
tally; -- followed by with.
"It jumps with my
humor." Shak.
To jump at, to spring to; hence, fig., to accept suddenly or eagerly; as, a fish jumps at a bait; to jump at a chance. To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a
stream.
To cause to jump; as, he jumped his
horse across the ditch.
To expose to danger; to risk; to
hazard.
[Obs.]
To jump a body with a dangerous physic. Shak. To
join by a butt weld.
To bore with a
jumper.
To jump a claim, to enter upon and take
possession of land to which another has acquired a claim by prior
entry and occupation. [Western U. S. *** Australia] See
Claim, The
act of jumping] a leap; a spring; a bound.
"To advance by
jumps." Locke. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
[Obs.]
Our fortune lies The space traversed by a leap.
A dislocation in a
stratum; a fault.
An abrupt interruption of
level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
From the jump, from the start or
beginning. [Colloq.] -- Jump joint.
Nice; exact; matched;
fitting; precise.
[Obs.] "Jump names." B.
Jonson. Exactly;
pat.
[Obs.] Shak. | ||||||||