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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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BUT'TON, n. but'n.

1. A knob; a small ball; a catch, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, made of metal, silk, mohair, wood, &c.

2. Any knob or ball fastened to another body; a small protuberant body.

3. A bud; a gem of a plant.

4. The button of the reins of a bridle, is a ring of leather, with the reins passed through, which runs along the length of the reins.

5. A flat piece of wood, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten doors.

6. A small round mass of metal, found at the bottom of a crucible, in chimical experiments.

7. The sea-urchin, an animal which has prickles instead of feet.

BUT'TON, v.t. but'n. To fasten with a button, or buttons; to inclose, or make secure with buttons; often followed with up, as to button up a waistcoat.

1. To dress or clothe. [Not used.]



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BUT'TON, n. but'n.

1. A knob; a small ball; a catch, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, made of metal, silk, mohair, wood, &c.

2. Any knob or ball fastened to another body; a small protuberant body.

3. A bud; a gem of a plant.

4. The button of the reins of a bridle, is a ring of leather, with the reins passed through, which runs along the length of the reins.

5. A flat piece of wood, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten doors.

6. A small round mass of metal, found at the bottom of a crucible, in chimical experiments.

7. The sea-urchin, an animal which has prickles instead of feet.

BUT'TON, v.t. but'n. To fasten with a button, or buttons; to inclose, or make secure with buttons; often followed with up, as to button up a waistcoat.

1. To dress or clothe. [Not used.]

BUT'TON, n. [but'n; Fr. bouton, a button, a bud; W. buttun, or botwm; Corn. bottum; It. bottone; Sp. boton, a button or bud; from the root of bud, that is, a push or protuberance. See Butt.]

  1. A knob; a small ball; a catch, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, made of metal, silk, mohair, wood, &c.
  2. Any knob or ball fastened to another body; a small protuberant body. – Boyle. Pope.
  3. A bud; a gem of a plant. – Shak.
  4. The button of the reins of a bridle, is a ring of leather, with the reins passed through, which runs along the length of the reins. – Encyc.
  5. A flat piece of wood, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten doors.
  6. A small round mass of metal, found at the bottom of a crucible in chimical experiments. – Nicholson.
  7. The sea-urchin, an animal which has prickles instead of feet. – Ainsworth.

BUT'TON, v.t. [but'n.]

  1. To fasten with a button, or buttons; to inclose, or make secure with buttons; often followed with up; as, to button up a waistcoat.
  2. To dress or clothe. [Not used.]

But"ton
  1. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
  2. To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.

    He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat.
    Dickens.

  3. To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
  4. A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.
  5. To dress or clothe.

    [Obs.] Shak.
  6. A bud; a germ of a plant.

    Shak.
  7. A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
  8. A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.

    Button hook, a hook for catching a button and drawing it through a buttonhole, as in buttoning boots and gloves. -- Button shell (Zoöl.), a small, univalve marine shell of the genus Rotella. -- Button snakeroot. (Bot.) (a) The American composite genus Liatris, having rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads. -- Button tree (Bot.), a genus of trees (Conocarpus), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies. -- To hold by the button, to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; to buttonhole.

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Button

BUT'TON, noun but'n.

1. A knob; a small ball; a catch, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, made of metal, silk, mohair, wood, etc.

2. Any knob or ball fastened to another body; a small protuberant body.

3. A bud; a gem of a plant.

4. The button of the reins of a bridle, is a ring of leather, with the reins passed through, which runs along the length of the reins.

5. A flat piece of wood, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten doors.

6. A small round mass of metal, found at the bottom of a crucible, in chimical experiments.

7. The sea-urchin, an animal which has prickles instead of feet.

BUT'TON, verb transitive but'n. To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose, or make secure with buttons; often followed with up, as to button up a waistcoat.

1. To dress or clothe. [Not used.]

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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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OPPO'SELESS, a. Not to be opposed; irresistible. [Not in use.]

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