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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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SCOUT, n. [L. ausculto, culto, colo; Gr. the ear.]
SCOUT, v.i. To go on the business of watching the motions of an enemy; to act as a scout.
SCOUT, v.t.
A swift sailing
boat.
[Obs.]
So we took a scout, very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers. Pepys. A projecting rock.
[Prov. Eng.] Wright.
To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to
treat with ridicule; to flout; as, to scout an idea or an
apology.
"Flout 'em and scout 'em." Shak. A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one
employed in war to gain information of the movements and condition of
an enemy.
Scouts each coast light-armèd scour, A college student's or undergraduate's
servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a
gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.
[Cant] A fielder in a game for
practice.
The act of scouting or
reconnoitering.
[Colloq.]
While the rat is on the scout. Cowper. Syn. -- Scout, Spy. -- In a military sense a scout is a soldier who does duty in his proper uniform, however hazardous his adventure. A spy is one who in disguise penetrates the enemies' lines, or lurks near them, to obtain information. To observe, watch, or look
for, as a scout] to follow for the purpose of observation, as a
scout.
Take more men, To pass over or through, as a scout] to
reconnoiter; as, to scout a country.
To go on the business
of scouting, or watching the motions of an enemy; to act as a
scout.
With obscure wing A boy scout (which see,
above).
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