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To abide; to remain; to continue. I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. Shak. Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart. Wordsworth.

An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller. "Dwellers at Jerusalem." Acts i. 19.

Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile. Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from…

Keeping at home.

To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession. The Holy Ghost became a dove, not as a symbol, but as a constantly indwelt form. Milman.

An inhabitant. Spenser.

Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.

See Lake dwellers, under Lake.

To dwell or stay beyond. [Poetic] "He outdwells his hour." Shak.

One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere. [Eng.]

Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.

Uninhabitable. [Obs.] "A land undwellable." Wyclif.

A kind of speedwell (Veronica Anagallis) found in wet places in Europe and America.

To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv. 55.

One who dwells; a resident. Speed.

st out. [R.] An adjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever. Jer. Taylor.

Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation. Come, let me lead you to our poor abode. Wordsworth.

The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. [R.] Caldwell.

clare or assert positively. Not that I so affirm, though so it seem To thee, who hast thy dwelling here on earth. Milton.

ying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor. The sweet of life, from which God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares. Milton.