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o be careless or trust to luck about it. "To play pitch and toss with the property of the country." G. Eliot. -- Pitch farthing. See Chuck farthing, under 5th Chuck.

gretted. "The more the pity." Shak. What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! Addison.

a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country. Are you native of this place Shak.

A region; country. [Obs.] "The plages of the north." Chaucer.

To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country. Even in penance, planning sins anew. Goldsmith.

An original settlement in a new country; a colony. While these plantations were forming in Connecticut. B. Trumbull.

A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer. Plowman's spikenard (Bot.), a European composite weed (Conyza squarrosa), having fragrant roots. Dr. Prior.

The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.

ople; full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country. Heaven, yet populous, retains Number sufficient to possess her realms. Milton.

consisting of the gentry, which, in case of invasion, was summoned to the defense of the country.

letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported. I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the…

The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy. Burrill.

To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held.

ble sense; as, the prepossessions of childhood. "The prejudices and prepossessions of the country." Sir W. Scott.

The official residence of a governor of a province; hence, a place; a splendid country seat.

penser. I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. Zech. ix. 6. A bold peasantry, their country's pride. Goldsmith.

al officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. Wisdom is the principal thing. Prov. iv. 7.

The territory or jurisdiction of a prince; or the country which gives title to a prince; as, the principality of Wales.

Sandys. [They] produce prodigious births of body or mind. Milton. The greatest jurist his country had produced. Macaulay.

en; hence, a foretelling; a prediction. That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import. Macaulay.