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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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PELT, n. [L. pellis.]
PELT, v.t. [L. pello.]
The skin
of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved
with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.
Sir T. Browne.
Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. Fuller. The human skin.
[Jocose]
Dryden. The body of any quarry
killed by the hawk.
Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast. To strike with something thrown or
driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with
stones; pelted with hail.
The children billows seem to pelt the clouds. Shak. To throw; to use as a missile.
My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. Dryden. To
throw missiles.
Shak. To throw out words.
[Obs.]
Another smothered seems to peltand swear. Shak. A blow or stroke from
something thrown.
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