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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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TUR'RET, n. [l. turris.] A little tower; a small eminence or spire attached to a building and rising above it.
A little tower, frequently a
merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger
structure.
A movable building, of a
square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one
hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in
approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders,
casting bridges, and other necessaries.
A revolving tower constructed of
thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on
vessels of war and on land.
The elevated central portion
of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and
ventilation.
Turret clock, a large clock adapted for an elevated position, as in the tower of a church. -- Turret head (Mach.), a vertical cylindrical revolving tool holder for bringing different tools into action successively in a machine, as in a lathe. -- Turret lathe, a turning lathe having a turret head. -- Turret ship, an ironclad war vessel, with low sides, on which heavy guns are mounted within one or more iron turrets, which may be rotated, so that the guns may be made to bear in any required direction. | ||||||||