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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
SPOON, n.
SPOON, v.i. To put before the wind in a gale. [I believe not now used.]
1913 Definition
See Spoom.
[Obs.]
We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys. An implement consisting of a small
bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in
preparing or eating food.
"Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. Shak. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape;
esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.
Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.
[Slang]
Hood.
Spoon bait (Fishing), a lure used in trolling, consisting of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a spoon with a fishhook attached. -- Spoon bit, a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side. -- Spoon net, a net for landing fish. -- Spoon oar. see under Oar. To take up in, or as
in, a spoon.
To act with
demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.
[Colloq.] A
wooden club with a lofted face.
Encyc. of Sport. To catch by fishing with a spoon bait.
He had with him all the tackle necessary for spooning pike. Mrs. Humphry Ward. In croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove
(a ball) with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible
knock.
To
fish with a spoon bait.
In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a
ball.
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