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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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SNUB, n. A knot or protuberance in wood; a snag. [Not in use.]
SNUB, v.t. [supra.]
To
sob with convulsions.
[Obs.] Bailey. To clip or break off the end of;
to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.
To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart,
sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.
J.
Foster. To treat with contempt or neglect, as a
forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.
To snub a cable or rope (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out. Totten. A knot;
a protuberance; a song.
[Obs.]
[A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain. Spenser. A check or rebuke; an intended
slight.
J. Foster.
Snub nose, a short or flat nose. -- Snub post, or Snubbing post (Naut.), a post on a dock or shore, around which a rope is thrown to check the motion of a vessel. | ||||||||