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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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SKATE, n. A sort or shoe furnished with a smooth iron for sliding on ice.
SKATE, v.i. To slide or move on skates.
SKATE, n. [L. squatus, squatina.] A fish of the ray kind, (Raia Batis;) called the variegated ray-fish, It is a flat fish, the largest and thinnest of the genus, some of them weighing nearly two hundred pounds.
A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit
the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used
for moving rapidly on ice.
Batavia rushes forth; and as they sweep, Roller skate. See under Roller. To move on skates.
Any one
of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch fishes of the genus
Raia, having a long, slender tail, terminated by a small caudal
fin. The pectoral fins, which are large and broad and united to the
sides of the body and head, give a somewhat rhombic form to these
fishes. The skin is more or less spinose.
* Some of the species are used for food, as the European blue or gray skate (Raia batis), which sometimes weighs nearly 200 pounds. The American smooth, or barn-door, skate (R. lævis) is also a large species, often becoming three or four feet across. The common spiny skate (R. erinacea) is much smaller. Skate's egg. See Sea purse. -- Skate sucker, any marine leech of the genus Pontobdella, parasitic on skates. | ||||||||