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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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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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1828 Definition
SKIRT, n.
To spread the skirt over, in Scripture, to take under one's care and protection Ruth.3.
SKIRT, v.t. To border; to form the border or edge; or to run along the edge; as a plain skirted by rows of trees; a circuit skirted round with wood.
SKIRT, v.i. To be on the border; to live near the extremity.
Savages--who skirt along our western frontiers.
1913 Definition
The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment;
the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or
a mantle.
A loose edging to any part of a
dress.
[Obs.]
A narrow lace, or a small skirt of ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece. Addison. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of
anything
"Here in the skirts of the forest."
Shak. A petticoat.
The diaphragm, or midriff, in
animals.
Dunglison. To cover with a skirt] to
surround.
Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold. Milton. To border; to form the border or edge of;
to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of
trees.
"When sundown skirts the moor."
Tennyson. To be on the border;
to live near the border, or extremity.
Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers. S. S. Smith. | ||||||||
