&c. 2[obs3].
     empty, void; vacant, vacuous; untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited;
tenantless; barren, sterile; desert, deserted; devoid; uninhabitable. 
     Adv. without, minus, nowhere; elsewhere; neither here nor there; in
default of; sans; behind one’s back. 
     Phr. the bird has flown, non est inventus[Lat].
     “absence makes the heart grow fonder” [Bayley]; “absent in body but
present in spirit” [1 Corinthians v, 3]; absento nemo ne nocuisse velit [Lat][Propertius]; “Achilles absent was Achilles still” [Homer]; aux absents les os; briller par son absence[Fr]; “conspicuous by his absence” [Russell]; “in the hope to meet shortly again and make our absence sweet” [B.  Jonson].

     #188.  Inhabitant.—­ N. inhabitant; resident, residentiary[obs3];
dweller, indweller[obs3]; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant[obs3]; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan[obs3], cockney, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier[obs3], cotter; compatriot; backsettler[obs3], boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter.
     native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones[obs3]; Englishman, John
Bull; newcomer &c. (stranger) 57.
     aboriginal, American[obs3], Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck*,
downeaster [U.S.], Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan.
     garrison, crew; population; people &c. (mankind) 372; colony,
settlement; household; mir[obs3]. 
     V. inhabit &c. (be present) 186; endenizen &c. (locate oneself)
184[obs3]. 
     Adj. indigenous; native, natal; autochthonal[obs3], autochthonous;
British; English; American[obs3]; Canadian, Irish, Scotch, Scottish, Welsh; domestic; domiciliated[obs3], domiciled; naturalized, vernacular, domesticated; domiciliary.
     in the occupation of; garrisoned by, occupied by.

—­ 1.  Bishop Wilkins. —­

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     #189. [Place of habitation, or resort.] Abode.—­ N. abode, dwelling,
lodging, domicile, residence, apartment, place, digs, pad, address, habitation, where one’s lot is cast, local habitation, berth, diggings, seat, lap, sojourn, housing, quarters, headquarters, resiance|, tabernacle, throne, ark.
     home, fatherland; country; homestead, homestall[obs3]; fireside;
hearth, hearth stone; chimney corner, inglenook, ingle side; harem, seraglio, zenana[obs3]; household gods, lares et penates[Lat], roof, household, housing, dulce domum[Lat], paternal domicile; native soil, native land.
     habitat, range, stamping ground; haunt, hangout; biosphere;
environment, ecological niche.
     nest, nidus, snuggery[obs3]; arbor, bower, &c. 191; lair, den, cave,
hole, hiding place, cell, sanctum sanctorum[Lat], aerie, eyrie, eyry[obs3], rookery, hive; covert, resort,