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A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Switzer; the people of Switzerland.

A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss. Fairholt.

urved wooden horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.

A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.

small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.

A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland. Chalets are summer huts for the Swiss herdsmen. Wordsworth.

Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps. (b) sing.

A Swiss; a Switzer.

A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.

Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss.

Of, pertaining to, or in conformity with, the practice of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician of the 15th century. Ferrand.

g with other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher. -- n.

The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.

A kind of Swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot.

e, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons.

A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Swiss.

An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of the Swiss canton of Vaud.

To sing in a manner common among the Swiss and Tyrolese mountaineers, by suddenly changing from the head voice, or falsetto, to the chest voice, and the contrary; to warble.