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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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PINK, n.
PINK, v.t. To work in eyelet-holes; to pierce with small holes.
A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also
pinky.
Sir W. Scott.
Pink stern (Naut.), a narrow stern. To wink; to
blink.
[Obs.] L'Estrange. Half-shut; winking.
[Obs.] Shak. To pierce with small
holes] to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or
angles.
To stab; to pierce as with a sword.
Addison. To choose; to cull; to pick out.
[Obs.] Herbert. A stab.
Grose. A name
given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus,
and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often
double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial
herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers
with a tubular calyx.
A color resulting from the combination of a
pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common
color of the flower.
Dryden. Anything supremely excellent; the
embodiment or perfection of something.
"The very pink of
courtesy." Shak. The European minnow; --
so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.
[Prov.
Eng.]
Bunch pink is Dianthus barbatus. -- China, or Indian, pink. See under China. -- Clove pink is Dianthus Caryophyllus, the stock from which carnations are derived. -- Garden pink. See Pheasant's eye. -- Meadow pink is applied to Dianthus deltoides; also, to the ragged robin. -- Maiden pink, Dianthus deltoides. -- Moss pink. See under Moss. -- Pink needle, the pin grass; -- so called from the long, tapering points of the carpels. See Alfilaria. -- Sea pink. See Thrift. Resembling the garden pink
in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2);
as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.
Pink eye (Med.), a popular name for an epidemic variety of ophthalmia, associated with early and marked redness of the eyeball. -- Pink salt (Chem. *** Dyeing), the double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal. -- Pink saucer, a small saucer, the inner surface of which is covered with a pink pigment. | ||||||||