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[.] FENCE, n. fens. [See Fend.] [.] 1. A wall, hedge, ditch, bank, or line of posts and rails, or of boards or pickets, intended to confine beasts from straying, and to guard a field from being entered by cattle, or from other encroachment. A good farmer has good ...

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fence-month

[.] FENCE-MONTH, n. The month in which hunting in any forest is prohibited.

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fenced

[.] FEN'CED, pp. Inclosed with a fence; guarded; fortified.

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fenceful

[.] FENCEFUL, a. fens'ful. Affording defense.

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fenceless

[.] FENCELESS, a. fens'less. [.] 1. Without a fence; uninclosed; unguarded. [.] 2. Open; not inclosed; as the fenceless ocean.

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fencer

[.] FEN'CER, n. One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.

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flower-fence

[.] FLOW'ER-FENCE, n. The name of certain plants. The flower-fence of Barbados is of the genus Poinciana. The bastard flower-fence is the Adenanthera.

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unfence

[.] UNFENCE, v.t. unfens'. To strip of fence; to remove a fence from.

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unfenced

[.] UNFEN'CED, pp. [.] 1. Deprived of a fence. [.] 2. a. Not fenced; not inclosed; defenseless; as a tract of land unfenced.

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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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eternal

ETER'NAL, a. [L. oeternus, composed of oevum and ternus, oeviternus, Varro. The origin of the last component part of the word is not obvious. It occurs in diuturnus, and seems to denote continuance.]

1. Without beginning or end of existence.

The eternal God is thy refuge. Deut.33.

2. Without beginning of existence.

To know whether there is any real being, whose duration has been eternal.

3. Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.

That they may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 2 Tim.2.

What shall I do, that I may have eternal life? Matt.19.

Suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Jude 7.

4. Perpetual; ceaseless; continued without intermission.

And fires eternal in thy temple shine.

5. Unchangeable; existing at all times without change; as eternal truth.

ETER'NAL, n. An appellation of God.

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