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An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller. "Dwellers at Jerusalem." Acts i. 19.

Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile. Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from…

Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I…

se), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera. [Written also gromill.]

Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.

Inflated; boastful.

Keeping at home.

The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.

To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession. The Holy Ghost became a dove, not as a symbol, but as a constantly indwelt form. Milman.

An inhabitant. Spenser.

Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.

See Jewelry. Burke.

See Lake dwellers, under Lake.

A person who never does, or fares, well; a good for nothing.

To dwell or stay beyond. [Poetic] "He outdwells his hour." Shak.

One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere. [Eng.]

To exceed in swelling.

To pour out. [Obs.] Spenser.

To swell or rise above; to overflow. [R.] Shak.

To overflow. R. D. Blackmore.