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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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SHEARS, n. plu. [from the verb.]
1. An instrument consisting of two blades with a bevel edge, movable on a pin, used for cutting cloth and other substances by interception between the two blades. Shears differ from scissors chiefly in being larger.
Fate urg'd the shears and cut the sylph in twain. Pope.
2. Something in the form of the blades of shears.
3. Wings. [Not in use.]
4. An engine for raising heavy weights. [See Sheers.]
5. The denomimation of the age of sheep from the cutting of the teeth; as sheep of one shear, two shear, &c. [Local.]
A cutting instrument.
Specifically:
Anything in the form of shears.
Specifically: The bedpiece of a machine
tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the
shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under
Lathe.
Rotary shears. See under Rotary. | ||||||||