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pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship. Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred. Gen. xxxxii. 9. I might have learned this by my last exile, that change of countries cannot change my state. Stirling. Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account Milton.…

A national bank not in a reserve city. [Colloq., U. S.]

A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.

A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.

A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.

Same as Prison base.

See Contradance. He had introduced the English country-dance to the knowledge of the Dutch ladies. Macualay.

One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26.

A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. [Eng.] W. Black. Blackmore.

A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant. Shak.

In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry. [Colloq.]

on upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. "Another prince . . . was living abroad." Macaulay.

One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.

Acres collectively; as, the acreage of a farm or a country.

Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

them to penalties. Abbott. -- Act in pais, a thing done out of court (anciently, in the country), and not a matter of record.

In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country. Actual cautery. See under Cautery. -- Actual sin (Theol.), that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to "original sin."