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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.
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1828 Noah Webster Dictionary
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 x
X, the twenty fourth letter of the English Alphabet, is borrowed from the Greek. In the middle and ...

62748

 xanthid
XANTHID, XANTHIDE, n. A compound of xanthogene and a metal.

62749

 xanthide
XANTHID, XANTHIDE, n. A compound of xanthogene and a metal.

62750

 xanthogene
XANTHOGENE, n. [Gr., yellow, to generate.] The base of a new acid, produced by the mixture of a ...

62751

 xebec
XEBEC, n. A small three masted vessel, used in the Mediterranean sea. With a fair wind, in good ...

62752

 xerocollyrium
XEROCOLLYRIUM, n. [Gr., dry.] A dry collyrium or eye-salve.

62753

 xeromyrum
XEROMYRUM, n. [Gr., dry; ointment.] A dry ointment.

62754

 xerophagy
XEROPHAGY, n. [Gr., dry; to eat.] The eating of dry meats, a sort of fast among the primitive ...

62755

 xerophthalmy
XEROPHTHALMY, n. [Gr., dry.] A dry red soreness or itching of the eyes, without swelling or a ...

62756

 xiphias
XIPHIAS, n. [Gr., a sword.] 1. The sword-fish.2. A comet shaped like a sword.

62757

 xiphoid
XIPHOID, a. [supra.] The xiphoid or ensiform cartilage, is a small cartilage placed at the bottom ...

62758

 xylography
XYLOGRAPHY, n. [Gr., wood; to engrave.] Wood-engraving; the act or art of cutting figures in wood, ...

62759

 xyster
XYSTER, n. [Gr., to scrape.] A surgeons instrument for scraping bones.

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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hit

HIT, v.t. pret. and pp. hit.

1. To strike or touch, either with or without force. We hit a thing with the finger, or with the head; a cannon ball hits a mast, or a wall.

2. To strike or touch, either with or without force. We hit a thing with the finger, or with the head; a cannon ball hits a mast, or a wall.

The archers hit him. 1 Sam.31.

3. To reach; to attain to.

Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right--

4. To suit; to be conformable.

--Melancholy,

Whose saintly visage is too bright

To hit the sense of human sight.

5. To strike; to touch properly; to offer the right bait.

There you hit him--that argument never fails with him.

To hit off, to strike out; to determine luckily.

1. To represent or describe exactly.

To hit out, to perform by good luck. [Little used.]

HIT, v.i. To strike; to meet or come in contact; to clash; followed by against or on.

If bodies be mere extension, how can they move and hit one against another.

Corpuscles meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them.

1. To meet or fall on by good luck; to succeed by accident; not to miss.

And oft it hits

Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

2. To strike or reach the intended point; to succeed.

And millions miss for one that hits.

To hit on or upon, to light on; to come to or fall on by chance; to meet or find, as by accident.

None of them hit upon the art.

HIT, n. A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke or blow that touches any thing.

So he the famed Cilician fencer prais'd,

And at each hit with wonder seems amaz'd.

1. A chance; a casual event; as a lucky hit.

2. A lucky chance; a fortunate event.

3. A term in back-gammon. Three hits are equal to a gammon.

HIT, v.i.

1. To move by jerks, or with stops; as, in colloquial language, to hitch along.

Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time

Slides in a verse, or hitches in a rhyme.

2. To become entangled; to be caught or hooked.

3. To hit the legs together in going, as horses. [Not used in the U. States.]

4. To hop; to spring on one leg. [Local.]

5. To move or walk.

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