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e, or quantity specified; thereabouts; more or less; as, I will spend a week or so in the country; I have read only a page or so. A week or so will probably reconcile us. Gay.

Land; country. Must I thus leave thee, Paradise thus leave Thee, native soil Milton.

The country ruled by a soldan, or sultan. [Poet.] Sir W. Scott.

n (for American boats) not more than $2400. The crew must be amateurs and citizens of the country in which the yacht was built.

ying epithet; as, poor soul. As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Prov. xxv. 25. God forbid so many simple souls Should perish by the aword! Shak. Now mistress Gilpin (careful soul). Cowper.

A country, region, or place situated farther to the south than another; the southern section of a country. "The queen of the south." Matt. xii. 42.

An inhabitant of the more southern part of a country; formerly, a name given in Scotland to any Englishman.

The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat. [Scot.] Jamieson.

n acompanied by abroad. They, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. Matt. ix. 31.

To explore; to view; inspect; and examine secretly, as a country; -- usually with out. Moses sent to spy Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof. Num. xxi. 32.

The gentlemen, or gentry, of a country, collectively. [Written also squirearchy.]

The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States. We should now say, Cotton is the great staple, that is, the established merchandize, of Manchester. Trench.

The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.

man; a politician; one skilled in government. [Obs.] Statists indeed, And lovers of their country. Milton.

mestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement.

An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction fraom common law. See Common law, under Common, a. Bouvier.

dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack. -- Steeple chase, a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, wal…

A variant of Strait, a. [Obs. or R.] Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow. Sir J. Mandeville.

rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain. Whether any poet of our country since Shakespeare has exerted a greater variety of powers with less strain and less ostentation. Landor. Credit is gained by custom, and seldom recovers a strain. Sir W. Temple.

Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands." Chaucer. One of the strange queen's lords. Shak. I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. Ascham.