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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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PUCK'ER, v.t. [L. pectus; Gr. signifies closely, densely, to cover.] To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate.
PUCK'ER, n. A fold or wrinkle, or a collection of folds.
To
gather into small folds or wrinkles] to contract into ridges and
furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker
up the mouth.
"His skin [was] puckered up in wrinkles."
Spectator. A
fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
A state of perplexity or anxiety;
confusion; bother; agitation.
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