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• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

COUNTRY (from the See also:

• MID

Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; See also:

• LATE

Late See also:

• LAT

Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the See also:

• TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract of See also:

• LAND

land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)  , an extent of See also:

• LAND

land without definite limits, or such a region with some See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, as the " See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country," the " fen country " and the like . The See also:

• EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension from such descriptive See also:

• LIMITATION, STATUTES OF

limitation to the limitation of occupation by particular owners or races is easy; this gives the See also:

• COMMON

common use of the word for the land inhabited by a particular nation or See also:

• RACE

race . Another meaning is that See also:

• PART

part of the land not occupied by towns, " rural " as opposed to " See also:

• URBAN
• URBAN (Urbanus)

urban " districts; this appears too in " country-See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house " and " country See also:

• TOWN

town "; so too " countryman " is used both for a rustic and for the native of a particular land . The word appears in many phrases, in the sense of the whole See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of a country, and especially of the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• BODY

body of See also:

• ELECTORS (Ger. Kurfursten, from Kilren, O.H.G. kiosan, choose, elect, and Furst, prince)

electors, as in the expression " go to the country," for the See also:

• DISSOLUTION (from Lat. dissolvere, to break up into parts)

dissolution of See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament preparatory to a general See also:

• ELECTION
• ELECTION (from Lat. eligere, to pick out)

election .