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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
WEDGE, n. [This word signifies a mass, a lump.]
WEDGE, v.t.
1913 Definition
A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick
at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting
wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the
six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See
Illust. of Mechanical powers, under
Mechanical.
A solid of five sides, having a
rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge,
and two triangular ends.
A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike
form.
"Wedges of gold." Shak. Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of
troops drawn up in such a form.
In warlike muster they appear, The person whose name stands lowest on the list
of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who
occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
[Cant, Cambridge
Univ., Eng.] C. A. Bristed.
Fox wedge. (Mach. *** Carpentry) See under Fox. -- Spherical wedge (Geom.), the portion of a sphere included between two planes which intersect in a diameter. To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or
as with a wedge] to rive.
"My heart, as wedged with a sigh,
would rive in twain." Shak. To force or drive as a wedge is
driven.
Among the crowd in the abbey where a finger He 's just the sort of man to wedge himself into a snug berth. Mrs. J. H. Ewing. To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge
does; as, to wedge one's way.
Milton. To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the
manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast. Dryden. To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to
wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of
timber in its place.
To cut, as clay, into wedgelike
masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles,
etc.
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Noah Says...
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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