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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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6345

 black
[.] BLACK, a. [.] 1. Of the color of night; destitute of light; dark. [.] 2. Darkened by clouds; as the heavens black with clouds. [.] 3. Sullen; having a cloudy look or countenance. [.] 4. Atrociously wicked; horrible; as a black deed or crime. [.] 5. ...

6346

 black-bird
[.] BLACK'-BIRD, n. [black and bird.] In England, the merula, a species of turdus, a singing bird with a fine note, but very loud. In America, this name is given to different birds,as to the gracula quiscula, or crow black-bird, and to the oriolus phaeniceus, or red winged ...

6347

 black-browed
[.] BLACK'-BROWED, a. [black and brow.] Having black eye-brows; gloomy; dismal; threatening; as a black-browed gust.

6348

 black-bryony
[.] BLACK-BRY'ONY, n. [black and bryony.] A plant, the Tamus.

6349

 black-cap
[.] BLACK-CAP, n. [black and cap.] A bird, the Motacilla atricapilla, or mock-nightingale; so called from its black crown. It is common in Europe. [.] 1. In cookery, an apple roasted till black, to be served up in a dish of boiled custard.

6350

 black-chalk
[.] BLACK-CHALK, n. A mineral of a bluish black color, of a slaty texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety of argillaceous slate.

6351

 black-faced
[.] BLACK'-FACED, a. Having a black face.

6352

 black-forest
[.] BLACK-FOREST, n. [black and forest.] A forest in Germany, in Swabia; a part of the ancient Hercynian forest.

6353

 black-friar
[.] BLACK-FRIAR, n. Black-friars is a name given to the Dominican Order, called also Predicants and preaching friars; in France, Jacobins.

6354

 black-lead
... [.] BLACK'-LEAD, ...

6355

 blacked
[.] BLACK'ED, pp. Made black; soiled.

6356

 blacken
[.] BLACK'EN, v.t. [.] 1. To make black. [.] [.] The importation of slaves that has blackened half America. [.] 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. [.] 3. To soil. [.] 4. To sully reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character. [.] BLACK'EN, ...

6357

 blackener
[.] BLACK'ENER, n. He that blackens.

6358

 blacking
[.] BLACK'ING, ppr. Making black. [.] BLACK'ING, n. A substance used for blacking shoes, variously made; any factitious matter for making things black.

6359

 blackish
[.] BLACK'ISH, a. Somewhat black; moderately black or dark.

6360

 blackly
[.] BLACK'LY, adv. Darkly; atrociously.

6361

 blackness
[.] BLACK'NESS, n. The quality of being black; black color; darkness; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.

6362

 blacksea
[.] BLACK'SEA, n. [black and sea.] The Euxine Sea, on the eastern border of Europe.

6363

 blacksmith
[.] BLACK'SMITH, n. [black and smith.] A smith who works in iron, and makes iron utensils; more properly, an iron-smith. [.] Black'-strakes, in a ship, are a range of planks immediately above the wales in a ship's side, covered with tar and lamp-black.

10620

 coal-black
[.] COAL-BLACK, a. Black as a coal; very black.

26404

 hellblack
[.] HELL'BLACK, a. Black as hell.

31197

 ivory-black
[.] I'VORY-BLACK, n. A fine kind of soft blacking.

32101

 lampblack
[.] LAMP'BLACK, n. [lamp and black; being originally made by means of a lamp or torch.] [.] A fine soot formed by the condensation of the smoke of burning pitch or resinous substances, in a chimney terminating in a cone of cloth.

49804

 shoeblack
[.] SHOEBLACK, n. [shoe and black.] A person that cleans shoes.

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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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WRAWL, v.i. To cry, as a cat. [Not in use.]

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