Webster
KJV
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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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SLIV'ER, v.t. To cut or divide into long thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; as, to sliver wood.
To
cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces] to
cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
Shak.
They 'll sliver thee like a turnip. Sir W. Scott. A
long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a
splinter.
A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or
other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine
and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds
spinning.
Bait made of pieces of small
fish. Cf. Kibblings.
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