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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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SCUD, v.i.
1. In a gereral sense, to be driven or to flee or fly with haste. In seamen's language, to be driven with precipitation before a tempest. This is done with a sail extended on the foremast of the ship, or when the wind is too violent, without any sail set, which is called scudding under bare poles.
2. To run with precipitation; to fly.
SCUD, n.
1. A low thin cloud, or thin clould driven by the wind.
2. A driving along; a rushing with precipitation.
To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by
something.
The first nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primeval oceans. I. Taylor. The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven. Beaconsfield. To be driven swiftly, or to
run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.
To pass over
quickly.
[R.] Shenstone. The act
of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.
Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the
wind.
Borne on the scud of the sea. Longfellow. The scud was flying fast above us, throwing a veil over the moon. Sir S. Baker. A slight, sudden shower.
[Prov. Eng.]
Wright. A small flight of
larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
[Prov. Eng.] Any swimming amphipod
crustacean.
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