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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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MUCK, n. [L. mucus.]
To run a muck, to run madly and attack all we meet.
Running a muck, is a phrase derived from the Malays, (in whose language amock signified to kill,) applied to desperate persons who
intoxicate themselves with opium and then arm themselves with a dagger and attempt to kill all they meet.
MUCK, v.t. To manure with muck.
abbreviation of
Amuck.
To run a muck. See Amuck. Dung in
a moist state; manure.
Bacon. Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found
in low, damp places and swamps.
Anything filthy or vile.
Spenser. Money; -- in contempt.
The fatal muck we quarreled for. Beau. *** Fl. Muck bar, bar iron which has been through the rolls only once. -- Muck iron, crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or rollers. Knight. Like muck] mucky; also,
used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck
fork.
To manure with
muck.
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