Search the Dictionary

hover; to impend; to appear threateningly; -- usually with over; as, evils hang over the country.

portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc. Exploits done in the heart of France. Shak. Peace subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation. Wordsworth.

A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage. Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. Milton Heath cock (Zoöl.), the blackcock. See Heath grouse (below). -- Heath grass (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus Triodia (T. decumbens)…

The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.

A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.

A native or an inhabitant of a western country. [Poetic] J. Barlow.

A kind of country-dance or round. [Obs.] Spenser.

Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the pl.) an elevated region or country; as, the Highlands of Scotland. Highland fling, a dance peculiar to the Scottish Highlanders; a sort of hornpipe.

Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country. "Hilly steep." Dryden.

A countryman; a rustic; a clown. [Obs.] Nares.

One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt. "Our old home [England]." Hawthorne.

A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling. Trench.

Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one's own country. Locke.

Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain. "Homespun country garbs." W. Irving.

Toward home; in the direction of one's house, town, or country. Homeward bound, bound for home; going homeward; as, the homeward bound fleet.

n; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii. 57.

nemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change.

A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen. Hundred court, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred. [Eng.] Blackstone.

A country in Central Europe, now a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hungary water, a distilled "water," made from dilute alcohol aromatized with rosemary flowers, etc.

To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.