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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
WHIFFLER, n.
1913 Definition
One who whiffles, or frequently changes his
opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a
trifler.
Every whiffler in a laced coat who frequents the chocolate house shall talk of the constitution. Swift. One who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or
piper.
[Obs.] An officer who went before procession to clear
the way by blowing a horn, or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at
the head of a procession; a harbinger.
Which like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king, * "Whifflers, or fifers, generally went first in a procession, from which circumstance the name was transferred to other persons who succeeded to that office, and at length was given to those who went forward merely to clear the way for the procession. . . . In the city of London, young freemen, who march at the head of their proper companies on the Lord Mayor's day, sometimes with flags, were called whifflers, or bachelor whifflers, not because they cleared the way, but because they went first, as whifflers did." Nares. The golden-eye.
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