Word Meanings - DWELT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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DWELL
AS. dwellan to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw. dväljas to dwell, Dan. dvæle to linger, 1. To delay; to linger. 2. To abide; to remain; to continue. I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. Shak. Thy
DWELLING
Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile. Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling
DWELLER
An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller. "Dwellers at Jerusalem." Acts i. 19.
INDWELLING
Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
OUTDWELL
To dwell or stay beyond. "He outdwells his hour." Shak.
INDWELLER
An inhabitant. Spenser.
SPEEDWELL
Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.
WATER SPEEDWELL
A kind of speedwell found in wet places in Europe and America.
LAKE-DWELLER
See LAKE
HOME-DWELLING
Keeping at home.
OUTDWELLER
One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere.
INDWELL
To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession. The Holy Ghost became a dove, not as a symbol, but as a constantly indwelt form. Milman.
UNDWELLABLE
Uninhabitable. "A land undwellable." Wyclif.