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Of or pertaining to Marseilles, in France, or to its inhabitants. Marseillaise hymn, or The Marseillaise, the national anthem of France, popularly so called. It was composed in 1792, by Rouget de l'Isle, an officer then stationed at Strasburg. In Paris it was sung for the first time by the band of men who came from Mar…

An inhabitant of the planet Mars. Du Maurier.

A native or inhabitant of Mecca.

A native or inhabitant of Media in Asia.

A native or inhabitant of Mexico. Mexican poppy (Bot.), a tropical American herb of the Poppy family (Argemone Mexicana) with much the look of a thistle, but having large yellow or white blossoms. -- Mexican tea (Bot.), an aromatic kind of pigweed from tropical America (Chenopodium ambrosioides).

middling size." Hallam. Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants. Hawthorne. -- Mid"dling*ly, adv. -- Mid"dling*ness, n.

Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants. Howell.

Of or pertaining to Milan in Italy, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

Of or pertaining to Miletus, a city of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants.

Of or pertaining to Modena or its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

One of the great races of man, including the greater part of the inhabitants of China, Japan, and the interior of Asia, with branches in Northern Europe and other parts of the world. By some American Indians are considered a branch of the Mongols. In a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of Mongolia and adjacent cou…

Of or pertaining to Morocco, or its inhabitants.

An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains.

A native or inhabitant of Muscovy or ancient Russia; hence, a Russian.

The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own. A nation is the unity of a people. Coleridge. Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. F. S. Key.

Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries.

The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries.

A native or inhabitant of Navarre; the people of Navarre.

A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; -- a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians.

A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.