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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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PUNCH, n. [L. punctum, pungo.] An instrument of iron or steel, used in several arts for perforating holes in plates of metal, and so contrived as to cut out a piece.
PUNCH, n. A drink composed of water sweetened with sugar, with a mixture of lemon juice and spirit.
PUNCH, n. The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show. [See Punchinello.]
PUNCH, n. A well set horse with a short back, thin shoulders, broad neck, and well covered with flesh.
PUNCH, v.t. [L. pungo.]
A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor,
water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; --
specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch,
claret punch, champagne punch, etc.
Milk punch, a sort of punch made with spirit, milk, sugar, spice, etc. -- Punch bowl, a large bowl in which punch is made, or from which it is served. -- Roman punch, a punch frozen and served as an ice. The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet
show.
Punch and Judy, a puppet show in which a comical little hunchbacked Punch, with a large nose, engages in altercation with his wife Judy. A short, fat fellow; anything
short and thick.
I . . . did hear them call their fat child punch, which pleased me mightily, that word being become a word of common use for all that is thick and short. Pepys. One of a breed of large, heavy draught
horses; as, the Suffolk punch.
To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end
of a stick or the elbow.
A thrust or blow.
[Colloq.] A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at
one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for
perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow
and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens,
jewelry, and the like; a die.
An extension piece
applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
A prop, as for the roof of a
mine.
Bell punch. See under Bell. --
Belt punch (Mach.), a punch, or punch
pliers, for making holes for lacings in the ends of driving
belts. -- Punch press. See Punching
machine, under Punch, To perforate or stamp with an
instrument by pressure, or a blow; as, to punch a hole; to
punch ticket.
Punching machine, or Punching press, a machine tool for punching holes in metal or other material; -- called also punch press. | ||||||||