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adv. & prep.
Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
n.
Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
imp. & p. p.
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p. pr. & vb. n.
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v. i.
To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; -- sometimes followed by of.
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A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.
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A genus of Infusoria which form minute vaselike or tubular cases in which they dwell.
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Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands.
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Of or pertaining to a troglodyte, or dweller in caves.
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One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.
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A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other; a decennary.
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An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller.
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Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name.
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One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.
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See Lake dwellers, under Lake.
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Any nest or dwelling of termes, or white ants.
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One dwelling in the upland; hence, a countryman; a rustic.
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One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes.
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An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.
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The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.
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