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To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.

planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants. I did not think a look, Or a poor word or two, could have displanted Such a fixed constancy. Beau. & Fl.

To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate. Kent.

The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy. Milman.

A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece.

Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants. Dutch auction. See under Auction. -- Dutch cheese, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk. -- Dutch clinker, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape. -- Dutch clover (Bot.), common white clover (Trifolium repens…

An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller. "Dwellers at Jerusalem." Acts i. 19.

; sing. Dyak. (Ethnol.) The aboriginal and most numerous inhabitants of Borneo. They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices.

An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal. Earthings oft her deemed a deity. Drummond.

Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race. English bond (Arch.)

A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.

A native or inhabitant of Ethiopia; also, in a general sense, a negro or black man.

A native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria.

A native or inhabitant of Etruria.

Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants. On the European plain, having rooms to let, and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels. [U. S.]

A native or inhabitant of Exeter, in England.

ct of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.

A citizen of Ferrara; collectively, the inhabitants of Ferrara.

Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants. -- n.