COUNTRY
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Coun"try (k?n"tr?), n.; pl. Countries (-tr&unr_;z). [F. contrée, LL. contrata, fr. L. contra over against, on the opposite side. Cf. Counter, adv., Contra.] 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.
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Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred.
Gen. xxxxii. 9.
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I might have learned this by my last exile,
that change of countries cannot change my state.
Stirling.
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Many a famous realm
And country, whereof here needs no account
Milton.
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2. Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
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As they walked, on their way into the country.
Mark xvi. 12 (Rev. Ver. ).
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God made the covatry, and man made the town.
Cowper.
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Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country.
Macaulay.
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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.
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All the country in a general voice
Cried hate upon him.
Shak.
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4. (Law) (a) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country. (b) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.
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5. (Mining.) The rock through which a vein runs.
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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.
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Coun"try, a. 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.
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2. Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.
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3. Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.
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She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language.
2 Macc. vii. 27.
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