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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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SAF'FRON, n. [The radical sense is to fail, or to be hollow, or to be exhausted.
SAF'FRON, a. Having the color of saffron flowers; yellow; as a saffron face; a saffron streamer.
SAF'FRON, v.t. To tinge with saffron; to make yellow; to gild.
A
bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers
with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.
The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas,
usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron
is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes,
etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.
An orange or deep yellow color, like that
of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus.
Bastard saffron, Dyer's saffron. (Bot.) See Safflower. -- Meadow saffron (Bot.), a bulbous plant (Colchichum autumnale) of Europe, resembling saffron. -- Saffron wood (Bot.), the yellowish wood of a South African tree (Elæodendron croceum); also, the tree itself. -- Saffron yellow, a shade of yellow like that obtained from the stigmas of the true saffron (Crocus sativus). Having the
color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a
saffron face; a saffron streamer.
To give color and
flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.
[Obs.]
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