Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Countries"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Country \Coun"try\ (k?n"tr?), n.; pl. {Countries} (-tr?z). [F.
contr['e]e, 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.

Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred. --Gen.
xxxxii. 9.

I might have learned this by my last exile, that
change of countries cannot change my state.
--Stirling.

Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs
no account --Milton.

2. Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.

As they walked, on their way into the country.
--Mark xvi. 12
(Rev. Ver. ).

God made the covatry, and man made the town.
--Cowper.

Only very great men were in the habit of dividing
the year between town and country. --Macaulay.

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. --Shak.

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, or throw, one's self upon the country}, to appeal to
one's constituents; to stand trial before a jury.


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