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Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population.

Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.

A large and delicious pear or Flemish origin.

The quality or state of being urbane; civility or courtesy of manners; politeness; refinement. The marquis did the honors of his house with the urbanity of his country. W. Irving.

To render urban, or urbane; to refine; to polish. Howell.

eace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current.

Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose; apathy; indifference.

Going between, or connecting, cities or towns; as, interurban electric railways.

Uncivil; unpolished; rude. M. Arnold. -- In`ur*bane"ly, adv. -- In`ur*bane"ness, n.

Want of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness. Bp. Hall.

Disturbance; perturbation. [R.] "Perturbance of the mind." Sharp.

Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city. "Suburban taverns." Longfellow. Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, . . . Delight the citizen. Cowper.

A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.

chin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.

A kind of fungus with an irregularly wrinkled, somewhat globular pileus (Helvella, or Gyromitra, esculenta.).

A turban. Balfour (Cyc. of Ind.).

Wearing a turban. " A malignant and a turbaned Turk." Shak.

A turban. [Obs.] Milton. I see the Turk nodding with his turbant. Howell.

A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation.

A hook or clasp. The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants. Sir W. Scott.