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Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation. Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece Locke. Tenement house, commonly, a dwelling house erected for the purpose of being rented, and divided into separate apartments or tenements for families. The term is often…

Consisting of land, in distinction from water; belonging to, or inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction from trees, water, or the like; as, terrestrial serpents. The terrestrial parts of the globe. Woodward.

A native or inhabitant of Thebes; also, a wise man. I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. Shak.

A native or inhabitant of Thessaly.

A native or inhabitant of Thessalonica.

A native or inhabitant of Thibet.

red manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.

A native or inhabitant of Thrace.

A native, or inhabitant of Thuringia.

of numerous species of active carnivorous beetles of the family Cicindelidæ. They usually inhabit dry or sandy places, and fly rapidly. -- Tiger bittern. (Zoöl.) See Sun bittern, under Sun. -- Tiger cat (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wild cats of moderate size with dark transverse bars or stripes somewhat res…

the American woodcock. [Local, U.S.] -- Timber grouse (Zoöl.), any species of grouse that inhabits woods, as the ruffed grouse and spruce partridge; -- distinguished from prairie grouse. -- Timber hitch (Naut.), a kind of hitch used for temporarily marking fast a rope to a spar. See Illust. under Hitch. -- Timber mar…

Shak. Tomb bat (Zoöl.), any one of species of Old World bats of the genus Taphozous which inhabit tombs, especially the Egyptian species (T. perforatus).

A native or inhabitant of Turin; collectively, the people of Turin.

The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.

Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town. [R.] Turbervile.

The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople.

An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another. Pope.

The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.

A native or inhabitant of a country beyond the Alps, that is, out of Italy.

To remove, and settle or establish for residence in another place; as, to transplant inhabitants. Being transplanted out of his cold, barren diocese of St. David into a warmer climate. Clarendon.