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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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LUM'BER, n.
LUM'BER, v.t.
A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing
articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
[Obs.]
They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. Lady Murray. Old or refuse household stuff; things
cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
Timber sawed or split into the form of
beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which
is smaller than heavy timber.
[U.S.]
Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. [U.S.] -- Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [U.S.] -- Lumber wagon, a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used for general farmwork, etc. To heap together in
disorder.
" Stuff lumbered together." Rymer. To fill or encumber with lumber] as, to
lumber up a room.
To move heavily, as if burdened.
To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to
rumble.
Cowper. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare
timber for market.
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