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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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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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1828 Definition
SPONGE. [See Spunge.]
1913 Definition
Any one of numerous
species of Spongiæ, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note
under Spongiæ.
The elastic fibrous skeleton of many
species of horny Spongiæ (keratosa), used for many purposes,
especially the varieties of the genus Spongia. The most
valuable sponges are found in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and
on the coasts of Florida and the West Indies.
One who lives upon others; a
pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.
Any spongelike substance.
Specifically:
A mop for cleaning the bore
of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood,
covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped
nap, and having a handle, or staff.
The extremity, or point, of a
horseshoe, answering to the heel.
Bath sponge, any one of several varieties of coarse commercial sponges, especially Spongia equina. -- Cup sponge, a toilet sponge growing in a cup- shaped form. -- Glass sponge. See Glass- sponge, in the Vocabulary. -- Glove sponge, a variety of commercial sponge (Spongia officinalis, variety tubulufera), having very fine fibers, native of Florida, and the West Indies. -- Grass sponge, any one of several varieties of coarse commercial sponges having the surface irregularly tufted, as Spongia graminea, and S. equina, variety cerebriformis, of Florida and the West Indies. -- Horse sponge, a coarse commercial sponge, especially Spongia equina. -- Platinum sponge. (Chem.) See under Platinum. -- Pyrotechnical sponge, a substance made of mushrooms or fungi, which are boiled in water, dried, and beaten, then put in a strong lye prepared with saltpeter, and again dried in an oven. This makes the black match, or tinder, brought from Germany. -- Sheep's-wool sponge, a fine and durable commercial sponge (Spongia equina, variety gossypina) found in Florida and the West Indies. The surface is covered with larger and smaller tufts, having the oscula between them. -- Sponge cake, a kind of sweet cake which is light and spongy. -- Sponge lead, or Spongy lead (Chem.), metallic lead brought to a spongy form by reduction of lead salts, or by compressing finely divided lead; -- used in secondary batteries and otherwise. -- Sponge tree (Bot.), a tropical leguminous tree (Acacia Farnesiana), with deliciously fragrant flowers, which are used in perfumery. -- Toilet sponge, a very fine and superior variety of Mediterranean sponge (Spongia officinalis, variety Mediterranea); -- called also turkish sponge. -- To set a sponge (Cookery), to leaven a small mass of flour, to be used in leavening a larger quantity. - - To throw up the sponge, to give up a contest; to acknowledge defeat; -- from a custom of the prize ring, the person employed to sponge a pugilist between rounds throwing his sponge in the air in token of defeat. [Cant or Slang] "He was too brave a man to throw up the sponge to fate." Lowell. -- Vegetable sponge. (Bot.) See Loof. -- Velvet sponge, a fine, soft commercial sponge (Spongia equina, variety meandriniformis) found in Florida and the West Indies. -- Vitreous sponge. See Glass-sponge. - - Yellow sponge, a common and valuable commercial sponge (Spongia agaricina, variety corlosia) found in Florida and the West Indies. To cleanse or wipe with
a sponge] as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a
sponge; as, to sponge cloth.
To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or
writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
Hooker. Fig.: To deprive of something by
imposition.
"How came such multitudes of our nation . . . to be
sponged of their plate and their money?" South. Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts
without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast.
Swift. To
suck in, or imbile, as a sponge.
Fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion,
or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor.
E. Eggleston.
The fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that sponges upon other people's trenchers. L'Estrange. To be converted, as dough, into a light,
spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven.
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Noah Says...
They choose men, not because they are just men, men of religion and integrity, but solely for the sake of supporting a party. This is a fruitful source of public evils. But as surely as there is a God in heaven, who exercises a moral government over the affairs of this world, so certainly will the neglect of the divine command, in the choice of rulers, be followed by bad laws and as bad administration; by laws unjust or partial, by corruption, tyranny, impunity of crimes, waste of public money, and a thousand other evils. Men may desire and adopt a new form of government; they may amend old forms, repair breaches and punish violators of the constitution; but there is, there can be no effectual remedy, but obedience to the divine law.
Value of the Bible (unpublished manuscript) :: 1834
