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in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.

A resident. [Obs. or Colloq.]

Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade.

Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian. Dr. H. More.

The office or condition of a residentiary.

The office or condition of a resident.

t residing in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as, a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands.

the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding. [R.] His angels president In every province. Milton.

Presiding or watching over. "Presidential angels." Glanvill.

The office and dignity of president; presidency. Hooker.

One who dwells; a resident. Speed.

A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not posses the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.

English and East Indian peoples or languages. -- n. One of the Anglo-Indian race born or resident in the East Indies. Anglo-Norman, a. Of or pertaining to the English and Normans, or to the Normans who settled in England. -- n. One of the English Normans, or the Normans who conquered England. Anglo-Saxon. See Anglo-S…

Arrest. [R.] The arrestation of the English resident in France was decreed by the National Convention. H. M. Williams.

very, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; --opposed to Hunker. [Political Cant, U. S.]

A follower of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912; -- a sense said to have originated from a remark made by Roosevelt on a certain occasion that he felt "like a bull moose." [Cant]

To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen. Now call we our high court of Parliament. Shak.

. -- Augustinian canons, Black canons. See under Augustinian. -- Canon capitular, Canon residentiary, a resident member of a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the year). -- Canon law. See under Law. -- Canon of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass, following the Sanctus, which never changes.…

A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England.

the sleepers. Chair days, days of repose and age. -- To put into the chair, to elect as president, or as chairman of a meeting. Macaulay. -- To take the chair, to assume the position of president, or of chairman of a meeting.