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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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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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1828 Definition
POOL, n. [L. palus; Gr. probably from setting, standing, like L. stagnum, or from issuing, as a spring.]
A small collection of water in a hollow place, supplied by a spring, and discharging its surplus water by an outlet. It is smaller than a lake, and in New England is never confounded with pond or lake. It signifies with us, a spring with a small basin or reservoir on the surface of the earth. It is used by writers with more latitude, and sometimes signifies a body of stagnant water.
POOL
1913 Definition
A small and rather deep collection of
(usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in
the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of
Solomon.
Wyclif.
Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. Bacon. The sleepy pool above the dam. Tennyson. A small body of standing or stagnant water;
a puddle.
"The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell."
Shak. The stake played for in certain games of
cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has
contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
A game at billiards, in which each of the
players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in
public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee
for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls
on a pool table.
* This game is played variously, but commonly with fifteen balls, besides one cue ball, the contest being to drive the most balls into the pockets. He plays pool at the billiard houses. Thackeray. In rifle shooting, a contest in which each
competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net
proceeds being divided among the winners.
Any gambling or commercial venture in which
several persons join.
A combination of persons contributing money
to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market
price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of
the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat
offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the
pool.
A mutual arrangement
between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated,
and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
An aggregation of properties
or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common
fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
Pin pool, a variety of the game of billiards in which small wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls. -- Pool ball, one of the colored ivory balls used in playing the game at billiards called pool. -- Pool snipe (Zoöl.), the European redshank. [Prov. Eng.] -- Pool table, a billiard table with pockets. To put together] to contribute to a common fund,
on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a
common interest of; as, the companies pooled their
traffic.
Finally, it favors the poolingof all issues. U. S. Grant. To combine or
contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling
transaction.
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l; akin
to LG. pool, pohl, D. poel, G. pfuhl; cf.
Icel. pollr, also W. pwll, Gael. poll.]
