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A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonius meeting.

One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized…

Of or pertaining to Mexico or its people. -- n.

A native or inhabitant of Milan; people of Milan.

The mass of common people; -- with the article the. For the play, I remember, pleased not the million. Shak.

use or allow to intermarry; to intermarry. The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands. Ezra ix. 2.

A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in the country palatine of Chester, England, at the change of the owner of the earldom. [Obs.]

Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.

To unite with in company; to join; to associate. Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people. Hos. vii. 8.

A native or inhabitant of Modena; the people of Modena.

the 15th century, the object of which was to lend money at a low rate of interest to poor people in need; -- called also mount of piety. The institution has been adopted in other countries, as in Spain and France. See Lombard-house.

A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot. J. R. Green.

render moral; to correct the morals of. It had a large share in moralizing the poor white people of the country. D. Ramsay.

Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the plural. The people of the children of Israel are more and mighter than we. Ex. i. 9.

The country inhabited by the Mormons; the Mormon people.

-- Mother country, the country of one's parents or ancestors; the country from which the people of a colony derive their origin. -- Mother liquor (Chem.), the impure or complex residual solution which remains after the salts readily or regularly crystallizing have been removed. -- Mother queen, the mother of a reign…

Many in number. [Archaic] Edom came out against him with much people. Num. xx. 20.

of persons or things, regarded collectively; as, the book will be read by a multitude of people; the multitude of stars; a multitude of cares. It is a fault in a multitude of preachers, that they uttery neglect method in their harangues. I. Watts. A multitude of flowers As countless as the stars on high. Longfellow.…

utter or give forth in low or indistinct words or sounds; as, to murmur tales. Shak. The people murmured such things concerning him. John vii. 32.

A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks.