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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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PALISA'DE, n. A fence or fortification consisting of a row of stakes or posts sharpened and set firmly in the ground. In fortification, the posts are set two or three inches apart, parallel to the parapet in the covered way, to prevent a surprise.
Palisades serve also to fortify the avenues of open forts, gorges, half-moons, the bottom of ditches, &c.
PALISA'DE, v.t. To surround, inclose or fortify with stakes or posts.
A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the
ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such
stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.
Any fence made of pales or sharp
stakes.
Palisade cells (Bot.), vertically elongated parenchyma cells, such as are seen beneath the epidermis of the upper surface of many leaves. -- Palisade worm (Zoöl.), a nematoid worm (Strongylus armatus), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms, often fatal. To surround,
inclose, or fortify, with palisades.
A line of bold
cliffs, esp. one showing basaltic columns; -- usually in pl.,
and orig. used as the name of the cliffs on the west bank of the lower
Hudson.
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