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

An inhabitant. Spenser.

See Lake dwellers, under Lake.

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

Ursus spelæus) similar to the grizzly bear, but large; common in European caves. -- Cave dweller, a savage of prehistoric times whose dwelling place was a cave. Tylor. -- Cave hyena (Zoöl.), a fossil hyena found abundanty in British caves, now usually regarded as a large variety of the living African spotted hyena.…

A dweller; an inhabitant. "Denizens of air." Pope. Denizens of their own free, independent state. Sir W. Scott.

A native of, or a dweller in, the East Indies.

A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.

A native of, or dweller in, Georgia.

An inhabitant; a dweller. Milton. Pope.

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

Admitted as a dweller; resident; internal. [R.] "Inmate guests." Milton.

A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.

A dweller by the sea. [R.]

One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist.

A dweller on the earth. De Quincey.

One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant. "Sweet tenants of this grove." Cowper. The hhappy tenant of your shade. Cowley. The sister tenants of the middle deep. Byron. Tenant in capite Etym: [L. in in + capite, abl. of caput head, chief.], or Tenant in chief, by the laws of England, one who holds imm…

One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes. In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it beareth called the "mad lake." Holland.

Of or pertaining to a troglodyte, or dweller in caves.

A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.