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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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SN'ARL, v.i. [This word seems to be allied to gnarl, and to proceed from some root signifyingto twist, bind, or fasten, or to involve, entangle, and thus to be allied to snare.]
SN'ARL, v.t.
SN'ARL, n. Entanglement; a knot or complication of hair, thread, &c., which it is difficult to disentangle.
To form raised work upon
the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a
snarling iron upon the inner surface.
To entangle] to
complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of
thread.
"Her snarled hair." Spenser. To embarrass; to insnare.
[The] question that they would have snarled him with. Latimer. A knot or complication of
hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement;
hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.
To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl;
to utter grumbling sounds.
"An angry cur snarls while he
feeds." Dryden *** Lee. To speak crossly] to talk in rude, surly
terms.
It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted. Dryden. The act of snarling; a
growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
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