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r fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale. All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise. Sir W. Raleigh.

veness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis. External objects stand before us . . . in all the life and emphasis of extension, figure, and color. Sir W. Hamilton.

To find harbor or safety in; to dwell in or inhabit. W. Browne.

surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop. Dwelling in a pleasant glade, With mountains round about environed. Spenser. Environed he was with many foes. Shak. Environ me with darkness whilst I write. Donne.

An assembly room in dwelling of the Pueblo Indians. L. H. Morgan.

A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence.

as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination. Though he in a fertile climate dwell. Shak.

f a class of rural deities or monsters supposed to live on figs. "Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns." Jer. i. 39. (Douay version). -- Fig gnat (Zoöl.), a small fly said to be injurious to figs. -- Fig leaf, the leaf tree; hence, in allusion to the first clothing of Adam and Eve (Genesis iii.7), a…

hing as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away.

interdict. More than I have said . . . The leisure and enforcement of the time Forbids to dwell upon. Shak.

The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.

d in the northern parts of Europe and America; -- called also gray duck. [Written also gaddwell.]

atus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.

A native of, or dweller in, Georgia.

The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city. I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell. Evelyn.

A dwelling place. Chaucer. Southey.

Dwelling; abode; residence. [Obs.] Spenser.

An inhabitant; a dweller. Milton. Pope.

The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. Denham.

A dweller; an inhabitant. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.