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One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing.

A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.

To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants. There [islets] were at once denizened by various weeds. J. D. Hooker.

A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.

A sofa, open carriage, or the like, so constructed that the occupants sit back to back.

reat or despotic power. [R.] Shak. Act of God. (Law) See under Act. -- Gallery gods, the occupants of the highest and cheapest gallery of a theater. [Colloq.] -- God's acre, God's field, a burial place; a churchyard. See under Acre. -- God's house. (a) An almshouse. [Obs.] (b) A church. -- God's penny, earnest penny…

A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd. The hive of Roman liars. Tennyson. Hive bee (Zoöl.), the honeybee.

Coming in, succeeding, or following, as occupant or possessor; as, in incoming tenant.

e who lives in the same house or apartment with another; a fellow lodger; esp.,one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or prison; by extension, one who occupies or lodges in any place or dwelling. So spake the enemy of mankind, inclos'd In serpent, inmate bad. Milton.

Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.

ke the combination pleasing to the ear; as, a naked fourth or fifth. Naked bed, a bed the occupant of which is naked, no night linen being worn in ancient times. Shak. -- Naked eye, the eye alone, unaided by glasses, or by telescope, microscope, or the like. -- Naked-eyed medusa. (Zoöl.) See Hydromedusa. -- Naked fl…

y of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants.

To hold possession; to be an occupant. "Occupy till I come." Luke xix. 13.

ngland, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theater.

The owner and occupant of a ranch or rancho.

An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman. [Western U. S.]

A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.

Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant. No woman shall succeed in Salique land. Shak.

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 who has the actual possession of land; the occupant. [Written also ter-tenant.]