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ot being able to promote them [the interests of life] on account of the difficulty of the region. James Byrne.

Region; locality. [Low]

. Geographical distribution, the natural arrangements of animals and plants in particular regions or districts.

Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract. These districts which between the tropics lie. Blackstone. Congressional district. See under Congressional. -- District attorney, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court. -- District court, a subordinate municipal, state, or U…

g or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal. With screwed face and doleful whine. South. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades. Milton.

Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the same region.

The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue.

A guillemot (Uria grylle), of the arctic regions. Also applied to the little auk or sea dove. See under Dove.

An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland. [He] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay. Lowell.

A part of this globe; a region; a country; land. Would I had never trod this English earth. Shak.

The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East. The gorgeous East, with richest…

The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.

Any region of fabulous wealth; exceeding richness. The whole comedy is a sort of El Dorado of wit. T. Moore.

elements, air, water, earth, fire. "Some luminous and fiery impressions in the elementary region." J. Spencer.

One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another.

pure fire or light; refined beyond aërial substance; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven. Go, soar with Plato to the empyreal sphere. Pope. Empyreal air, oxygen gas.

A peculiar structure found in the Archæan limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure.

Situated upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon.

Pertaining to the epigastrium, or to the epigastric region.

The region between the antennæ and the mouth, in Crustacea.