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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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SPURT, v.t. [The English word has suffered a transposition of letters. It is from the root of sprout, which see.] To throw out, as liquid in a stream; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth, or other liquid from a tube.
SPURT, v.i. To gush or issue out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream.
SPURT, n.
To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor
from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet;
to spirt.
Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, To throw out, as a
liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a
liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from
the mouth.
A
sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid, as of water from a
tube, orifice, or other confined place, or of blood from a wound; a
jet; a spirt.
A shoot; a bud.
[Obs.]
Holland. Fig.: A sudden outbreak; as, a spurt
of jealousy.
Spurt grass (Bot.), a rush fit for basket work. Dr. Prior. A sudden
and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a
brief space.
The long, steady sweep of the so-called "paddle" tried him almost as much as the breathless strain of the spurt. T. Hughes. To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an
emergency.
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