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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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SHIVE, n. shiv.
1. A slice; a thin cut; as a shive of bread. [Not in use.]
2. A thin flexible piece cut off. [Not in use.]
3. A little piece or fragment; as the shives of flax made by breaking
A slice; as, a
shive of bread.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Shak. A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one
of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the
operation of breaking.
A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-
mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks.
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