Country
.To appeal to the country. To dissolve Parliament in order to ascertain the wish of the country by a new election of representatives.
Father of his country. (See Father.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.