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Habitan

Habitan \Ha`bi`tan"\ ([.a]`b[-e]`t[aum]N"), n. Same as Habitant, 2.

General Arnold met an emissary . . . sent . . . to ascertain the feelings of the habitans or French yeomanry.
--W. Irving.

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habitan

n. (obsolete form of habitant English)

Usage examples of "habitan".

For 1,400 or 1,500 miles of this distance, the Nova Scotian, the Habitan, and the Upper Canadian have spread, more or less in lines and patches over the ground, until the population of 60,000 of 1759 amounts to 2,500,000 in 1860.

They went first, of course, to the French cathedral, pausing on their way to alight and walk through the Bonsecours Market, where the habitans have all come in their carts, with their various stores of poultry, fruit, and vegetables, and where every cart is a study.

Once a suspension-bridge, built sorely against the will of the neighboring habitans, hung from these towers high over the long plunge of the cataract.

II faut retenir en prison les officiers et les principaux habitans desquels on pourra retirer des rancons.

Paradise, to me so long habitans in sicco, sojourner in the monotoned wastes of the great Gold Desert.

Amidst the confusion and hazard of this feat a procession of other habitans marched aboard, each one bearing under his arm a coffin-shaped wooden box.

They were idle ladies and gentlemen under umbrellas, Indians and habitans taking the rain stolidly erect or with shrugged shoulders, and two or three clergymen of the curate type, who might have stepped as they were out of any dull English novel.

The few tourists and returning habitans settled themselves in the bow and made ready for their voyage.

Pointe des Monts and winding in behind the Isles des Oeufs to the River Pentecoute, where she deposited some more habitans, including a priest in a black soutane, who somewhat incongruously was smoking a large cigar.

For there is that about this genial frontiersman that draws all men to him alike, be they Scotch or English, Canadian habitans or Montagnais, and he is the king of the coast, as his father was before him, or as was old Peter McKenzie, the head factor, who incidentally cast the best salmon fly ever thrown east of Montreal or south of Ungava.

Los individuos de la tribu no pasan, creo, de setecientos, incluyendo los Nr, que habitan más al sur, entre los matorrales.

Habitan en los elevados riscos de montañas inaccesibles y no conocen el fuego, ni saben construir casas, ni hacer vestidos, e ignoran incluso el uso de las armas.

Elle est située près du païs des Zinge et du païs des Arabes, et la pluspart des habitans de cette isle sont Chrestiens, dont on rapporte cette raison.