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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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SCOOP, n.
SCOOP, v.t.
A large ladle; a vessel with a
long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing
boats.
A deep shovel, or any similar implement for
digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour
scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.
A spoon-shaped instrument,
used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a
hollow.
Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. J. R. Drake. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop
or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
Scoop net, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river. -- Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum. To take out or up with,
a scoop] to lade out.
He scooped the water from the crystal flood. Dryden. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a
well dry.
To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to
excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.
Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint. Arbuthnot. A beat.
[Newspaper Slang] To get a scoop, or a
beat, on (a rival).
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