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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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SCARF, n. plu. scarfs
A cormorant.
[Scot.] An article of dress of a light
and decorative character, worn loosely over the shoulders or about the
neck or the waist; a light shawl or handkerchief for the neck; also, a
cravat; a neckcloth.
Put on your hood and scarf. Swift. With care about the banners, scarves, and staves. R. Browning. To throw on loosely] to put
on like a scarf.
"My sea-gown scarfed about me."
Shak. To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf;
to cover with a loose wrapping.
Shak. To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for
a joint in timber, metal rods, etc.
In a piece which is to be united to another by a scarf joint, the
part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so
as to be thinner than the rest of the piece.
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