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357 words match “INHABITANT”

PRUSSIAN a.
A native or inhabitant of Prussia. Prussian blue (Chem.), any one of several complex double cyanides of ferrous and ferric iron; specifically, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, obtained by adding a solution of potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate of potash) to a ferric salt. It is used in dye…
PURE a.
me vowels and the unaspirated consonants. Pure-impure, completely or totally impure. "The inhabitants were pure-impure pagans." Fuller. -- Pure blue. (Chem.) See Methylene blue, under Methylene. -- Pure chemistry. See under Chemistry. -- Pure mathematics, that portion of mathematics which treats of the principles of…
RAJPOOT; RAJPUT n.
A Hindoo of the second, or royal and military, caste; a Kshatriya; especially, an inhabitant of the country of Rajpootana, in northern central India.
REGION n.
The inhabitants of a district. Matt. iii. 5.
REQUEST n.
onsience, founded by act of Parliament to facilitate the recovery of small debts from any inhabitant or trader in the district defined by the act; -- now mostly abolished. (b) A court of equity for the relief of such persons as addressed the sovereign by supplication; -- now abolished. It was inferior to the Court of C…
RHODIAN a.
A native or inhabitant of Rhodes.
RICE n.
ively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed. Ant rice. (Bot.) See under Ant. -- French rice. (Bot.) See Amelcorn. -- Indian rice., a tall reedlike water grass (Zizania aquatica), bearing…
RIDE v.
carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below. The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants. Macaulay.
ROUMANIAN n.
An inhabitant of Roumania; also, the language of Roumania, one of the Romance or Romanic languages descended from Latin, but containing many words from other languages, as Slavic, Turkish, and Greek.
RURICOLIST n.
An inhabitant of the country. [R.] Bailey.
RUSSIAN a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to Russia, its inhabitants, or language. -- n.
RUSTIC n.
An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown. Hence to your fields, you rustics! hence, away. Pope.
SACK n.
ruthless code of war allowed, in that age, on the persons and property of the defenseless inhabitants, without regard to sex or age. Prescott.
SAMARITAN a.
A native or inhabitant of Samaria; also, the language of Samaria.
SAMIAN n.
A native or inhabitant of Samos.
SAMOAN a. 2 definitions
Samoan Islands (formerly called Navigators' Islands) in the South Pacific Ocean, or their inhabitants. -- n.
SARDINIAN a.
A native or inhabitant of Sardinia.
SARMATIAN; SARMATIC a.
Of or pertaining to Sarmatia, or its inhabitants, the ancestors of the Russians und the Poles.
SAVOYARD n.
A native or inhabitant of Savoy.
SAXON n. 2 definitions
the fifth and sixth centuries. (b) Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon. (c) A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.
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