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Same as Habitant, 2. General met an emissary . . . sent . . . to ascertain the feelings of the habitans or French yeomanry. W. Irwing.

Dwelling; abode; residence. [Obs.] Spenser.

Same as Inhabitancy.

An inhabitant; a dweller. Milton. Pope.

another, or in the same place or country. No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England. Sir W. Raleigh.

One who dwells with another, or with others. "Coinhabitants of the same element." Dr. H. More.

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.

des permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, county, or state. "Frail inhabitants of earth." Cowper. In this place, they report that they saw inhabitants which were very fair and fat people. Abp. Abbot.

One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.

An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. The Abderite, Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.

An original inhabitant of any land; one of the aborigines.

The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

Of or pertaining to Æolia or Æolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; æolic; as, the Æolian dialect.

in a company. The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. A. R. Stanley.

An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London.

A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States. The name American must always exalt the pride of patriotism. Washington.

The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.

Inhabitants of opposite hemispheres. Whewell.

The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions. The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. Brande & C.

Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants. Arabian bird, the phenix. Shak.