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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
TESTU'DO, n. [L.] A tortoise. Among the Romans, a cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards and moved on wheels.
1913 Definition
A genus of tortoises which formerly included a
large number of diverse forms, but is now restricted to certain terrestrial
species, such as the European land tortoise (Testudo Græca)
and the gopher of the Southern United States.
A cover or screen which a
body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over
their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the
back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and
other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved
on wheels.
A kind of musical instrument. a
species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to
have been made of the shell of a tortoise.
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