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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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SMOTHER, v.t. [allied perhaps to smoke.]
SMOTHER, n.
To destroy the life of by
suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up
closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to
smother a child.
To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to
deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the
like; as, to smother a fire.
Hence, to repress the action of; to cover
from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's
displeasure.
To be suffocated or stifled.
To burn slowly, without sufficient air; to
smolder.
Stifling smoke; thick dust.
Shak. A state of suppression.
[Obs.]
Not to keep their suspicions in smother. Bacon. Smother fly (Zoöl.), an aphid. That which
smothers or causes a sensation of smothering, as smoke, fog, the foam
of the sea, a confused multitude of things.
Then they vanished, swallowed up in the grayness of the evening and the smoke and smother of the storm. The Century. | ||||||||