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; 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.

A native or inhabitant of Finland.

A native or inhabitant of Flanders.

A native or inhabitant of Florence, a city in Italy.

An inhabitant of a forest. Wordsworth.

A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant.

Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. French bean (Bot.), the common kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). -- French berry (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. -- French casement (Arch.) See French window, under Window. -- French ch…

A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n.