资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Conclusion \Con*clu"sion\, n. [F., fr. L. conclusio. See
   {Conclude}.]
   1. The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

            A fluorish of trumpets announced the conclusion of
            the contest.                          --Prescott.

   2. Final decision; determination; result.

            And the conclusion is, she shall be thine. --Shak.

   3. Any inference or result of reasoning.

   4. (Logic) The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the
      necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two
      related propositions called premises. See {Syllogism}.

            He granted him both the major and minor, but denied
            him the conclusion.                   --Addison.

   5. Drawing of inferences. [Poetic]

            Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes And still
            conclusion.                           --Shak.

   6. An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be
      drawn. [Obs.]

            We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and
            inoculating.                          --Bacon.

   7. (Law)
      (a) The end or close of a pleading, e.g., the formal
          ending of an indictment, ``against the peace,'' etc.
      (b) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a
          particular position. --Wharton.

   {Conclusion to the country} (Law), the conclusion of a
      pleading by which a party ``puts himself upon the
      country,'' i.e., appeals to the verdict of a jury.
      --Mozley & W.

   {In conclusion}.
      (a) Finally.
      (b) In short.

   {To try conclusions}, to make a trial or an experiment.

            Like the famous ape, To try conclusions, in the
            basket creep.                         --Shak.

   Syn: Inference; deduction; result; consequence; end;
        decision. See {Inference}.

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.