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Migratory. Sir T. Browne. -- n.

Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation.

es; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.

Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another. -- n.

A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant. [R.] Bacon.

A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U.S.Hist.] The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the ha…

A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.

A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc.

A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.

One who emigrates; am emigrant. [R.]

f the Malay Archipelago, and probably sprung from a mixture of Polynesian and Mongoloid immigrants. According to Keane, the autochthonous Negritos were largely expelled by the Caucasian Polynesians, themselves followed by Mongoloid peoples of Indo-Chinese affinities, from mixture with whom sprang the Indonesian race.…

To place; to set in a particular spot or position. The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. B. F. Westcott.

A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen. Mitford. The whole force of Athens, metics as well as citizens, and all the strangers who were then in the city. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries.

cially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.