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Country   /kˈəntri/   Listen
noun
Country  n.  (pl. countries)  
1.
A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship. "Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred." "I might have learned this by my last exile, that change of countries cannot change my state." "Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account"
2.
Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town. "As they walked, on their way into the country." "God made the covatry, and man made the town." "Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country."
3.
The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence:
(a)
One's constituents.
(b)
The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country. "All the country in a general voice Cried hate upon him."
4.
(Law)
(a)
A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
(b)
The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.
5.
(Mining.) The rock through which a vein runs.
Conclusion to the country. See under Conclusion.
To put one's self upon the country, or To throw one's self upon the country, to appeal to one's constituents; to stand trial before a jury.



adjective
Country  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.
2.
Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.
3.
Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country. "She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language."






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... bark, leaves, mosses, etc. Sporangium .5-.6 mm. in diameter, the stipe from once to twice this length. This, the typical species, I have not seen in this country, but forms with the sporangium lemon-yellow and grayish-yellow, with the stipe golden-yellow, connect it with C. rufipes. It is Physarum citrinum Schum. Diderma citrinum ...
— The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio • A. P. Morgan

... brought her fur coat and put it about her shoulders. That was just like her, Raven thought, as he went in upon them, to go by the clock and, because winter evenings necessitated evening dress, ignore the creeping cold of a country house. Nan wore her gown of the morning, and her stout shoes. Indeed she had to, Raven reminded himself, when he was about to commend her for good taste. She had brought only her little bag. Nan was now sweet reasonableness itself. No sleepiest kitten, ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown

... quite frankly, the technique of the young Pointillist painters, his juniors, because it appeared to him better than his own. He is, if not a great painter, at least one of the most interesting rustic landscape painters of our epoch. His visions of the country are quite his own, and are a harmonious mixture of Classicism and Impressionism which will secure one of the most honourable ...
— The French Impressionists (1860-1900) • Camille Mauclair

... for an instant, that his new friend lives; yes, his friend! for, from this moment he experiences for him an emotion of sympathetic affection. He loves him, he is so much to be pitied! Poor father, he has lost his sons, he has lost his fortune and the hope of returning to his country; and yet there reigns in his letter a tone of dignified calmness, of religious resignation which can come only from a noble heart. He is a Spaniard and a Roman Catholic; Selkirk is a Scotchman and a Presbyterian; ...
— The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or The Real Robinson Crusoe • Joseph Xavier Saintine

... exquisitely tinted background the outlines of Hurst Castle stood sharply out, the castle itself and the low spit of land on which it is built appearing of a deep, rich, powerful, purple hue, as though carved out of a giant amethyst, while the country further inland exhibited tints varying from the deepest olive—almost approaching black—through the richest greens, away to the most delicate of pearly greys in the remote distance. The Wight—about ...
— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood


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