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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

May 27, 2012

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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.

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(74) Words.

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(433) Words.

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emication
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ignescent
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oculist
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orpiment
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phasis
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quarter
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rationale
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reedgrass
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saving
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scarious
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scintillating
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shine
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slenderness
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something
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spanish-broom
spar
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sparagus
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spargefaction
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sparing
sparingly
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sparkle
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sparkling
sparrow
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sparrow-hawk
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sparse
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spoke
sprit
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starring
steely
strait-handed
strontianite
subtilly
sugar-candy
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supply
synagris
table
tabular
take
talc
taste
tear
ternate
thievery
thrifty
tinder
titanite
toad-stone
top-gallant
touch
touch-wood
trachyte
tralucent
translucency
translucent
translucid
transmissible
transparency
transparent
transparentness
transpicuous
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trochite
turpentine
twinkle
twinkling
undiaphanous
unicorn
unmerciful
unscintillating
unspared
untransparent
utricle
value
vapor
variegate
vegeto-animal
water
watery
wear
wernerite
white-wine
whitestone
wit
woolding
wreath

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1828 Definition

SP'AR, [If this word is connected with spare, the primary sense is probably thin. The sense of bar and spar, is however more generally derived from thrusting, shooting in length; so spear likewise. See Bar.]

1. A stone that breaks into a regular shape; marcasite. This name is popularly given to any crystalized mineral of a shining luster.

2. A round piece of timber. This name is usually given to the round pieces of timber used for the yards and top-masts of ships.

3. The bar of a gate.

SP'AR, v.t. To bar; to shut close or fasten with a bar.

SP'AR, v.i. [This is another form of the L. spiro. The primary sense is to urge, drive, throw, propel.]

1. To dispute; to quarrel in words; to wrangle. [This is the sense of the word in America.]

2. To fight with preclusive strokes.

1913 Definition

Spar (spar)
n.	(?)
Spar
[AS. spær in spærstn chalkstone; akin to MHG. spar, G. sparkalk plaster.] (Min.)

An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein.

Blue spar, Cube spar, etc. See under Blue, Cube, etc.

A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.

Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters.

The bar of a gate or door.

[Obs.] Chaucer.

Spar buoy (Naut.), a buoy anchored by one end so that the other end rises above the surface of the water. -- Spar deck (Naut.), the upper deck of a vessel; especially, in a frigate, the deck which is continued in a straight line from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, and on which spare spars are usually placed. See under Deck. -- Spar torpedo (Naut.), a torpedo carried on the end of a spar usually projecting from the bow of a vessel, and intended to explode upon contact with an enemy's ships.

To bolt; to bar.

[Obs.] Chaucer.

To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.

* A vessel equipped with spars that are too large or too small is said to be oversparred or undersparred.

To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.

To use the fists and arms scientifically in attack or defense; to contend or combat with the fists, as for exercise or amusement; to box.

Made believe to spar at Paul with great science. Dickens.

To contest in words; to wrangle.

[Colloq.]

A contest at sparring or boxing.

A movement of offense or defense in boxing.

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May 27, 2012