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

rt, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.

The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.

To pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residence, as men or families; to migrate.

The act of passing from one country to another; migration.

nsmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another.

mit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another. The ancientest fathers must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the gospel. Mil…

o place; a journey. With long travel I am stiff and weary. Shak. His travels ended at his country seat. Dryden.

The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of…

Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers. Holland.

a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes. In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it beareth called the "mad lake." Holland.

ounterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian. The true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. John i. 9. True ease in writing comes from art, not chance. Pope.

s, to be truly attached to a lover; the citizens are truly loyal to their prince or their country. Burke.

kind of black coat for evening dress made without skirts; -- so named after a fashionable country club at Tuxedo Park, New York. [U. S.]

The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government. "Sir," would he [Seneca] say, "an emperor mote need…

tle brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up. Dryden. A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up. Addison. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. Longfellow.

To rear, or bring up; to nurse. "Upbred in a foreign country." Holinshed.

The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns. [Obs.]

One dwelling in the upland; hence, a countryman; a rustic. [Obs.]

ncivilized. [Obs.] His presence made the rudest peasant melt, That in the wild, uplandish country dwelt. Marlowe.