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A native or inhabitant of the Hebrides.

A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek. Brewer.

id the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1).

as, she herself will bear the blame; also used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is herself; she blames herself.

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

A native or inhabitant of Hesse.

A native or an inhabitant of Ireland.

The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj.

th he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself. But he himself returned from the quarries. Judges iii. 19. David hid himself in the field. 1 Sam. xx. 24. The Lord himself shall give you a sign. Is. vii. 14. Who gave…

ame given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindoos. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written. Whitworth.

A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda.

A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing.

A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman.

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.

Native; indigenous; not foreign. Donne. Pope.

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

n women, purity; chastity. If she have forgot Honor and virtue. Shak. Godlike erect, with native honor clad. Milton.

abortive smallpox with an eruption like that of chicken pox. -- Horn quicksilver (Min.), native calomel, or bichloride of mercury. -- Horn shell (Zoöl.), any long, sharp, spiral, gastropod shell, of the genus Cerithium, and allied genera. -- Horn silver (Min.), cerargyrite. -- Horn slate, a gray, siliceous stone.…

the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes.

A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (S. tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen.