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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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UP'LAND, n. [up and land.] High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry. It is opposed to meadow, march, swamp, interval, &c. Uplands are particularly valuable as affording pasture for sheep.
UP'LAND, a.
High
land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the
banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally
dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh,
swamp, interval, and the like.
The country, as distinguished from the
neighborhood of towns.
[Obs.] Of or
pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation; as,
upland inhabitants; upland pasturage.
Sometimes, with secure delight Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from
the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished.
[Obs.] " The
race of upland giants." Chapman.
Upland moccasin. (Zoöl.) See Moccasin. -- Upland sandpiper, or Upland plover (Zoöl.), a large American sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) much valued as a game bird. Unlike most sandpipers, it frequents fields and uplands. Called also Bartramian sandpiper, Bartram's tattler, field plover, grass plover, highland plover, hillbird, humility, prairie plover, prairie pigeon, prairie snipe, papabote, quaily, and uplander. -- Upland sumach (Bot.), a North American shrub of the genus Rhus (Rhus glabra), used in tanning and dyeing. | ||||||||