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rt. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese. Curds and cream, the flower of country fare. Dryden.

circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.

Pertaining to Cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern Africa, and to Cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by Aristippus, a native of Cyrene. -- n.

One of a breed of terriers with short legs, long body, and rough coat, originating in the country about the English and Scotch border.

Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country. -- n.

where dead letters are examined and disposed of. -- Dead level, a term applied to a flat country. -- Dead lift, a direct lift, without assistance from mechanical advantage, as from levers, pulleys, etc.; hence, an extreme emergency. "(As we say) at a dead lift." Robynson (More's Utopia). -- Dead line (Mil.), a line…

xhibit the boundaries of; to mark the limits of; as, to define the extent of a kingdom or country.

One admitted to residence in a foreign country. Ye gods, Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes. Dryden.

esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.

To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish. [Obs.] A subject born in any state May, if he please, depatriate. Mason.

To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc. Saturday Review.

To become dispeopled. [R.] Whether the country be depopulating or not. Goldsmith.

To take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country.

pt sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country. "The deserted fortress." Prescott.

A deserted condition. [R.] "The desertness of the country." Udall.

to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.

A place or country wasted and forsaken. How is Babylon become a desolation! Jer. l. 23.

One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.

ain way," replied the Prince [William of Orange] " by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last ditch." Hume (Hist. of Eng. ). -- To die out, to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died out.

diplomat. In ability, Avaux had no superior among the numerous able diplomatics whom his country then possessed. Macaulay.