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Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun.

A native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa.

Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants. -- n.

Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria.

A native or an inhabitant of Australasia.

A native or an inhabitant of Australia.

Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants. -- n.

supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.

An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.

A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland. [R.] Bancroft.

A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria. Bavarian cream. See under Cream.

An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman. "Raving bedlamites." Beattie.

A native or inhabitant of Belgium.

To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town. Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong. Blackstone.

Of or pertaining to Beloochistan, or to its inhabitants. -- n.

race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.

leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.

An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea.

A native or inhabitant of Biscay.