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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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SQUAB, a. [G., plump, sleek; to be plump or sleek, and to vibrate.]
SQUAB, n.
SQUAB, adv. Striking at once; with a heavy fall; plump.
Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice. Betterton. Unfledged; unfeathered; as, a squab
pigeon.
King. A neatling of a pigeon or other similar bird,
esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.
A person of a short, fat figure.
Gorgonious sits abdominous and wan, A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one
used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa.
Punching the squab of chairs and sofas. Dickens. On her large squab you find her spread. Pope. With a heavy fall; plump.
[Vulgar]
The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab, upon a rock. L'Estrange. To fall plump; to
strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
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