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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
THUMB
1913 Definition
The short, thick first digit of the
human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges;
the pollex. See Pollex.
Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. Chaucer. Thumb band, a twist of anything as thick as the
thumb. Mortimer. -- Thumb blue, indigo in
the form of small balls or lumps, used by washerwomen to blue linen, and
the like. -- Thumb latch, a door latch having a
lever formed to be pressed by the thumb. -- Thumb
mark. To handle awkwardly.
Johnson. To play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and
fingers] as, to thumb over a tune.
To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers;
to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling; also, to cover with the thumb;
as, to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon.
He gravely informed the enemy that all his cards had been thumbed to pieces, and begged them to let him have a few more packs. Macaulay. To play with the thumb or
thumbs; to play clumsily; to thrum.
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