migrantadj.n.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 4 Passager and migrant Birds..whom no Seas nor Places limit.

1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 105 They [sc. grosbeaks] visit us only in hard winters, and are not regularly migrant.

a1802 E. Darwin Temple of Nature (1803) iv. 159 The migrant herring steers her myriad bands From seas of ice to visit warmer strands.

1842 Peter Parley's Ann. 306 The usual watering-places of the migrant animals.

1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights II. xxxvi. 651 Do you wonder we felt ourselves more like happy migrant birds than ever?

1898 B. Carman By Aurelian Wall 99 The dumb and tiny creatures Of flower and blade and sod,..The airy migrant comers On gauzy wings of fire.

1929 Jrnl. Ecol. 17 270 The following plants..had risen from migrant seeds, and represent a different element in the community.

1966 Encycl. N.Z. I. 819/1 The great majority of our migrant birds are waders.

1976 Ecology 57 801/1 Some plant species emerging in logged areas are not found in the unlogged forest, suggesting an origin from migrant or buried seed.

1996 New Scientist 2 Nov. 18/1 Robert Srygley..and his colleagues tracked two species of butterfly, the migrant sulphur, Aphrissa statira, and the many-banded dagger wing, Marpesia chiron,..as they migrated across Lake Gatún in Panama.

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad ii. 69 And migrant tribes these fruitful shorelands hail.

1844 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 7 7 A less proportionate amount of mortality prevails amongst the adults who are migrant, than on other adults.

1848 Littell's Living Age 26 Aug. 422/2 I feel as if some former birth (as Indian sages tell) Had given my migrant soul within these realms of light to dwell.

1900 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 195/1 Two breeds of migrant men have made the West, the seven-league-booters and the little-by-littlers. Early Iowa invited the latter class, not the former.

1903 Jewish Encycl. IV Dibbuḳim, transmigrated souls. ‘Dibbuḳ’..is a colloquial equivalent..for a migrant soul.

1961 Guardian 6 Feb. 8/4 A migrant group is likely to include..some who are merely footloose, who will settle nowhere.

1988 M. Warner Lost Father x. 91 The philosopher who established the doctrine of migrant souls taught in my mother's homeland.

1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (version 99.1) at Chavez, Cesar Organizer and leader of migrant American farm workers, largely Hispanic.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 538 Melanins always occur in the form of microscopic granules, and it seems almost certain that they are carried into the developing and growing feather by migrant pigment-carrying cells or melanophores.

1964 Science 28 Feb. 962/1 (caption) Dead blood cells..being engulfed by migrant cells from blastema explant.

1999 European Jrnl. Immunol. 29 75 These results should help to improve the isolation and characterization of migrant thymic stem cells.

1760 S. Foote Minor Ded. sig. Aii^v The unhappy migrants may be..at least, hospitably entertained.

a1792 S. Hearne Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort (1795) iv. 74 There are many very extensive tracts of land..which are incapable of affording support to any number of the human race even during the short time they are passing through them, in the capacity of migrants, from one place to another.

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad ix. 322 For countless ages forced from place to place, Just reproduced but scarce preserved his race. At last, a soil more fixt and streams more sweet Inform the wretched migrant where to seat.

1864 R. A. Arnold Hist. Cotton Famine 383 To facilitate migration from the cotton districts, and to direct the migrants to the best markets for their labour.

1883 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 757/2 Above some of the doorways hung fluttering shreds of cotton cloth, the remains of signs which more economical migrants (is there any other word that would so properly designate the class?) had stripped off their deserted houses, and carried on to the next camp.

1908 Daily Chron. 21 Aug. 7/2 The brilliant migrants were there also—samples of the gay, wealthy, over-accented floating population of great cities—the rich and homeless and restless—those who lived and had their social being in the gorgeous and expensive hotels.

1912 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 18 394 There is little doubt that this large number of temporary migrants tends to reduce the variations in the price of labor by keeping the ratio of demand to supply more nearly constant.

1953 Population Stud. 6 260 The statistical data available to us do not distinguish clearly between permanent and seasonal migrants.

c1978 H. Carruth in Coll. Longer Poems (1993) 103 The idle, the rich, the developers, the ski-bums, the gamblers, they all came, seasonal migrants.

1991 D. Allberry Walking Distance 5 Our first jobs were picking berries. We'd ride out early in the back of a pickup—kids my age, and migrants... Every fall we'd see them stumbling along the tracks, leaving town.

1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Migrant labour The migrants, whether national or foreign-born, are fundamentally alien to the community in which they work. The local population, if eager to see them come, is even more eager to see them go.

1948 Rep. Native Laws Comm. 1946–8 (Dept. Native Affairs, S. Afr.) 43/1 The migrants bring back money to the Reserves. On the other hand the Reserves have to bear the burden..of caring for the migrants themselves when their working years are terminated.

1963 M. H. Wilson & A. Mafeje Langa 47 For a migrant in town the most important group is that of his abakhaya or home-boys.

1978 Randlords & Rotgut in Theatre Two (1981) 121 The miners are still digging. The compounds are policed. The migrants still fulfill our needs.

1991 J. Crush et al. S. Africa's Labor Empire i. 30 In Lesotho, migrants working in the neighboring Orange Free State gold fields are now known as ‘weekenders’.

1795 W. Winterbotham Hist. View Amer. U.S. I. 204 A great proportion of these migrants were males; and..they have served to increase the proportion of males in the States where they have settled.

1799 Pennsylvania Gaz. 29 May But gentlemen argue, as if, because the states had a right to permit migration, the migrants were under a sort of special protection of the state admitting it.

1849 Littell's Living Age 21 July 97/2 But, in one sense, fever is imported; the migrants bring to the low, over-crowded, and ill-constructed districts of our towns, increased numbers..; and hence, where such persons settle the disease appears.

1879 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 42 587 Migration [in Ireland] sets towards the east, the places of emigrants being occupied by migrants from the west. The children of these migrants forget the language of their parents.

1898 Dict. National Biogr. LIII. 138/2 Smyth's biographer.., after completely disproving Wood's assertion that Smyth was a migrant from Oxford to Cambridge, inclines to identify him with William Smyth.

1900 N. Amer. Rev. May 663 In my opinion, two streams of migrants flowed from the base of the Abyssinian Mountains—one from the direction of Senaar and Fazogl, and the other from Shoa... Before the conquering march of this host, the primitive peoples fled into the places of refuge which lay on either side of the route.

1948 H. E. Hockly Story of Brit. Settlers of 1820 9 The main body of the Bantu migrants..had firmly established itself in the territory..covering a vast and undefined area generally referred to as Kaffirland.

1962 A. G. Frank in Monthly Rev. (N.Y.) Nov. 384 Education and ‘suitable’ marriage..are perhaps the most important vehicles for the social and economic migrant.

1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 191 Meditations on the nation as imagined from its frontiers, from the conceptual position of the migrant.

1922 Daily Mail (Sydney) 17 Jan. 1/2 Please don't speak of those arriving in Australia from Britain as immigrants... Call them rather migrants, because to go from Britain to Australia is only to pass from one part of Great Britain to another.

1925 A. A. B. Apsley Why & How I went to Australia 9 The next ‘blue’ period the migrant passes through is when he arrives as a ‘newy’ on the farm where work has been found for him.

1954 J. Waten Unbending 11 He was the kind of migrant most beloved of fellow migrants, the true believer, forever optimistic about the future, never casting doubts, never questioning any favourable report about Australia, no matter how fantastic.

1992 Independent 19 Aug. 1/2 Professor Brian Taylor, a language expert at Sydney University, thinks lessons..should be given to migrants arriving in Australia... Migrants, known as ‘reffos’—short for refugees—in the immediate postwar years, but now dubbed ‘new Australians’, would know when they are being abused and when to deliver a few appropriate expletives themselves.

2000 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Electronic ed.) 27 July He was studying physical education..at Footscray Institute but soaking up knowledge from the European migrants who brought the game to Australia.