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A native or inhabitant of Canada. Canadian period (Geol.), A subdivision of the American Lower Silurian system embracing the calciferous, Quebec, and Chazy epochs. This period immediately follows the primordial or Cambrian period, and is by many geologists regarded as the beginning of the Silurian age, See the Diagram,…

To take prisoner; to capture. Their inhabitans slaughtered and captived. Burke.

A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina.

A native or inhabitant of Carthage.

An inhabitant or native of Castile, in Spain.

A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian.

An inhabitant of heaven. Pope.

he ancient Celtiberia (a district in Spain lying between the Ebro and the Tagus) or its inhabitants the Celtiberi (Celts of the river Iberus). -- n.

A native or inhabitant of Chaldea.

A native or inhabitant of Cilicia.

A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitants; also (sing.),

A native or inhabitant of Circassia.

A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously. "Insulted as a cit". Johnson Which past endurance sting the tender cit. Emerson.

An inhabitant of a city; a townsman. Shak.

A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see. A city i…

A cohabitant. Hobbes.

A member or inhabitant of a colony.

nists; to migrate to and settle in. Bacon. They that would thus colonize the stars with inhabitants. Howell.

y commonable, as hogs. -- Common because of vicinage or neighborhood, the right of the inhabitants of each of two townships, lying contiguous to each other, which have usually intercommoned with one another, to let their beasts stray into the other's fields. -- Common in gross or at large, a common annexed to a man's…

-- to use the technical words of the time -- of the "commune", the general mass of the inhabitants, against the "prudhommes" or "wiser" few. J. R. Green.