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The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; the condition of an inhabitant; residence; occupancy. Ruins yet resting in the wild moors testify a former inhabitance. Carew.

Population; inhabitants. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and of the world's inhabitation. Sir W. Raleigh.

An inhabitant. [R.] Derham.

A female inhabitant. [R.]

An inhabitant. [Obs.] Spenser.

To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc.

Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland. Irish elk. (Zoöl.) See under Elk. -- Irish moss. (a) (Bot.) Carrageen. (b) A preparation of the same made into a blanc mange. -- Irish poplin. See Poplin. -- Irish potato, the ordinary white potato, so called because it is a favorite article of…

An inhabitant of an island.

A native or inhabitant of Italy.

A native or inhabitant of Jamaica.

Of or pertaining to Japan, or its inhabitants.

A native or inhabitant of Jutland in Denmark.

An individual of one of the races of aboriginal inhabitants which survive in Hindostan. -- a.

A native or inhabitant of a mountainous region of Western Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies. [Written also Koord.]

A native or an inhabitant of the Kurile Islands. [Written also Koorilian.]

An inhabitant of Laconia; esp., a Spartan.

The inhabitants of a nation or people. These answers, in the silent night received, The kind himself divulged, the land believed. Dryden.

Connecticut; -- a nickname alluding to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by the rigid laws (see Blue laws) of the early period.

A native or inhabitant of Lapland; -- called also Lapp.

A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman.