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One who pastures cattle, and rears them for market. The inhabitants be rather . . . graziers than plowmen. Stow.

A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek.

Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps. (b) sing.

One of the mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian) inhabitants of the pampas of South America; a mestizo.

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

To settle as an inhabitant. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

The trematode, Bilharzia hæmatobia, which infests the inhabitants of Egypt and other parts of Africa, often causing death.

A native or naturalized inhabitant of Hanover; one of the House of Hanover.

A native or inhabitant, or the people, of Havana.

A native or inhabitant of the Hebrides.

Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece; Greek; Grecian. "The Hellenic forces." Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states.

A native or an inhabitant of a western country. [Poetic] J. Barlow.

A native or inhabitant of Hesse.

A native or an inhabitant of Ireland.

An inhabitant of highlands, especially of the Highlands of Scotland.

A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda.

A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana. [U.S.]

nally contained a hundred families, or freemen. Hundred court, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred. [Eng.] Blackstone.

An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred.