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To dwell. [Poetic] Shak.

Dwelling in cloisters; solitary. "Cloistered friars and vestal nuns." Hudibras. In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell, Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell. Shenstone.

ntial. League with you I seek And mutual amity, so strait, so close, That I with you must dwell, or you with me. Milton.

To dwell or live together as husband and wife. The law presumes that husband and wife cohabit together, even after a voluntary separation has taken place between them. Bouvier.

One who dwells with another, or in the same place or country. No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England. Sir W. Raleigh.

The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another. Feltham.

One who dwells with another, or with others. "Coinhabitants of the same element." Dr. H. More.

piers of arable land to put commonable beasts upon the waste land in the manor where they dwell. -- Common appurtenant, a similar right applying to lands in other manors, or extending to other beasts, besides those which are generally commonable, as hogs. -- Common because of vicinage or neighborhood, the right of th…

A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation. Commorancy consists in usually lying there. Blackstone.

good nature; kindness; civility; affability. Complacency, and truth, and manly sweetness, Dwell ever on his tongue, and smooth his thoughts. Addison. With mean complacence ne'er betray your trust. Pope.

A space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.

An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.

A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.

One who dwells in the country, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer. A simple countryman that brought her figs. Shak.

A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant. Shak.

development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings, under Lake. Encyc. Brit.

The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.

A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house. Burrill.

An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux. [Written also Dacotahs.]

master, or sir. [Obs.] Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell. Spenser. What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land. Thomson.