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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.

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(79) Words.

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(821) Words.

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godliness
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1828 Definition

ROVE, v.i. [L. rapio.]

To wander; to ramble; to range; to go, move or pass without certain direction in any manner, by walking, riding, flying or otherwise.

For who has power to walk, has power to rove.

ROVE, v.t. To wander over; as roving a field; roving the town. This is an elliptical form of expression, for roving over, through or about the town.

ROVE, v.t. To draw a thread, string or cord through an eye or aperture.

1913 Definition

Rove (rove)
v. t.	(rv)
Rove
[perhaps fr. or akin to reeve.]

To draw through an eye or aperture.

To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.

Jamieson.

To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.

A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.

A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.

To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.

[Obs.] Hakluyt.

Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.

For who has power to walk has power to rove. Arbuthnot.

To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).

Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart
At that good knight so cunningly didst rove. Spenser.

Syn. -- To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.

To wander over or through.

Roving the field, I chanced
A goodly tree far distant to behold. milton.

To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.

The act of wandering; a ramble.

In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt. Young.

Rove beetle (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of beetles of the family Staphylinidæ, having short elytra beneath which the wings are folded transversely. They are rapid runners, and seldom fly.

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If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes.

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The foundation for American Heritage Access [AHA] strives to capture the essence of American culture with an intent to make early American manuscripts accessible to modern society. We believe that the successful future of this country is dependent on honoring and respecting its past. In order to achieve this ideal, several projects will be introduced and executed. The first initiatives of Project::Noah will involve the accessibility of the 1828 American dictionary.

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May 27, 2012