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Residence; abode. [Obs.] Bacon.

Residence. [Obsoles.]

Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade.

Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian. Dr. H. More.

omy. Rural dean. (Eccl.) See under Dean. -- Rural deanery (Eccl.), the state, office, or residence, of a rural dean.

One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. [Obs.] "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.

To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.

A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support. Blackstone. Bouvier. Act of settlement (Eng. Hist.), the statute of 12 and 13…

A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land. Though long detained In that obscure sojourn. Milton.

Temporary residence, as that of a stranger or a traveler. [R.]

ot much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.

A student who is advanced beyond the first year of his residence.

2d Bittersweet, 3 (b). -- To set, or To put, up, or down, one's staff, to take up one's residence; to lodge. [Obs.]

Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another. -- n.

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

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.

Living or situated remote from the seacoast; as, an upcountry residence. [Colloq.] -- n.

The house or residence of a vicar.

A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance. Dryden. Cowper.

aining to water; consisting of water. "The watery god." Dryden. "Fish within their watery residence." Milton.