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to harbor; to take shelter. Their purpose was to fortify in some strong place of the wild country, and there nestle till succors came. Bacon.

nforming; declining conformity; especially, not conforming to the established church of a country.

The land in the north; north country. [Chiefly Poetic]

A northener; a person from the north country.

Any country or region situated farther to the north than another; the northern section of a country.

nnovation was probably borrowed from the French. Sir. W. Hamilton. Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. D. Webster.

Ale or cider made in that month. The country gentlemen had a posset or drink they called October. Emerson.

Open country. [Obs.] See World. Shak.

p so many delightful views into the character and condition of our "bold peasantry, their country's pride." Prof. Wilson.

e regarded as of great authority; as, a literary oracle. "Oracles of mode." Tennyson. The country rectors . . . thought him an oracle on points of learning. Macaulay.

rder; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness. Milton.

A machine for use in making topographical maps. It is operated by being pushed across country, and not only records distances, like the perambulator, but also elevations.

closely allied to the mulberry (Morus); also, its fruit. The tree was first found in the country of the Osage Indians, and bears a hard and inedible fruit of an orangelike appearance. See Bois d'arc.

ced to a perpetual ostracism from the . . . confidence, and honors, and emoluments of his country. A. Hamilton.

Of or pertaining to us; belonging to us; as, our country; our rights; our troops; our endeavors. See I. The Lord is our defense. Ps. lxxxix. 18.

s out, his team was taken out. "My shoulder blade is out." Shak. He hath been out (of the country) nine years. Shak.

One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond. The Lord . . . gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. Ps. cxlvii. 2.

abuse; wanton mischief; gross injury. Chaucer. He wrought great outrages, wasting all the country. Spenser.

ans fell. Dryden. They are not so ready to overbear the adversary who goes out of his own country to meet them. Jowett (Thucyd. )

ething over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams doth overlay. Spenser. Framed of cedar overlaid with gold. Milton. And overlay With this portentous bridge the dark abyss. Milton.…