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Connecticut; -- a nickname alluding to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by the rigid laws (see Blue laws) of the early period.

One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.

inscription of thirty-four lines, dating from the 9th century b. c., and written in the Moabite alphabet, the oldest Phonician type of the Semitic alphabet. It records the victories of Mesha, king of Moab, esp. those over Israel (2 Kings iii. 4, 5, 27).

A female Moabite. Ruth i. 22.

Moabite. Ruth ii. 6.

Pulverized sugar candy. Crabb.

One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.

Confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract. [Obs.] Jer. Tailor.

One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors.

To inhabit again. Mede.

commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. The Abderite, Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.

Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation. Come, let me lead you to our poor abode. Wordsworth.

An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.

The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. J. H. Newman.

The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.

To cohabit with. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; - - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.