Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COUN'TRY, a.

1. Pertaining to the country or territory at distance from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country town; a country seat; a country squire; a country life; the country party, as opposed to city party.
2. Pertaining or peculiar to one's own country. He spoke in his country language. – Maccabees.
3. Rude; ignorant. – Dryden. Country-dance, an erroneous orthography. [See Contra-dance.]