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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
POT'TER, n. [form pot.] One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels.
1913 Definition
One whose occupation is to make earthen
vessels.
Ps. ii. 9.
The potter heard, and stopped his wheel. Longfellow. One who hawks crockery or
earthenware.
[Prov. Eng.] De Quincey. One who pots meats or other
eatables.
The red-bellied
terrapin. See Terrapin.
Potter's asthma (Med.), emphysema of the lungs; -- so called because very prevalent among potters. Parkers. -- Potter's clay. See under Clay. -- Potter's field, a public burial place, especially in a city, for paupers, unknown persons, and criminals; -- so named from the field south of Jerusalem, mentioned in Matt. xxvii. 7. -- Potter's ore. See Alquifou. -- Potter's wheel, a horizontal revolving disk on which the clay is molded into form with the hands or tools. "My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel." Shak. -- Potter wasp (Zoöl.), a small solitary wasp (Eumenes fraternal) which constructs a globular nest of mud and sand in which it deposits insect larvæ, such as cankerworms, as food for its young. To busy one's
self with trifles; to labor with little purpose, energy, of effect; to
trifle; to pother.
Pottering about the Mile End cottages. Mrs. Humphry Ward. To walk lazily or idly; to
saunter.
To poke; to push;
also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother.
[Prov. Eng.]
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