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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.

A native or inhabitant of Corfu, an island in the Mediterranean Sea.

A native or inhabitant of Corinth.

The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country. All the country in a general voice Cried hate upon him. Shak.

An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak.

pposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant. Shak.