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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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MAN'GLE, v.t.
MAN'GLE, n. [L. mango.]
MAN'GLE, v.t. To smooth cloth with a mangle; to calendar.
To cut or bruise with repeated blows or
strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to
tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to
mutilate.
Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton. To mutilate or injure, in making, doing,
or performing; as, to mangle a piece of music or a
recitation.
To mangle a play or a novel. Swift. A machine for smoothing linen or cotton
cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller
pressure.
Mangle rack (Mach.), a contrivance for converting continuous circular motion into reciprocating rectilinear motion, by means of a rack and pinion, as in the mangle. The pinion is held to the rack by a groove in such a manner that it passes alternately from one side of the rack to the other, and thus gives motion to it in opposite directions, according to the side in which its teeth are engaged. -- Mangle wheel, a wheel in which the teeth, or pins, on its face, are interrupted on one side, and the pinion, working in them, passes from inside to outside of the teeth alternately, thus converting the continuous circular motion of the pinion into a reciprocating circular motion of the wheel. To
smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.
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