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Definition of territory

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Territory (n.) In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province..

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Chinook :: Chinook (n.) A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory..

Sassoline :: Sassoline (n.) Native boric acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence..

#NAME? :: -ion () A noun suffix denoting act, process, result of an act or a process, thing acted upon, state, or condition; as, revolution, the act or process of revolving; construction, the act or process of constructing; a thing constructed; dominion, territory ruled over; subjection, state of being subject; dejection; abstraction..

Extraterritoriality :: Extraterritoriality (n.) A fiction by which a public minister, though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign or nation..

Seigniory :: Seigniory (n.) The territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.

Duchy :: Duchy (n.) The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom.

Recession :: Recession (n.) The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign..

Territorialize :: Territorialize (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a territory.

Kansas :: Kansas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians allied to the Winnebagoes and Osages. They formerly inhabited the region which is now the State of Kansas, but were removed to the Indian Territory..

Territorially :: Territorially (adv.) In regard to territory; by means of territory.

Township :: Township (n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections..

Retrocede :: Retrocede (v. t.) To cede or grant back; as, to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor..

Territorialize :: Territorialize (v. t.) To enlarge by extension of territory.

Cherokees :: Cherokees (n. pl.) An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes..

Extraterritorial :: Extraterritorial (a.) Beyond the limits of a territory or particular jurisdiction; exterritorial.

Reign :: Reign (n.) The territory or sphere which is reigned over; kingdom; empire; realm; dominion.

Territoried :: Territoried (a.) Possessed of territory.

Margraviate :: Margraviate (n.) The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.

Beylic :: Beylic (n.) The territory ruled by a bey.

Chickasaws :: Chickasaws (n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian) allied to the Choctaws. They formerly occupied the northern part of Alabama and Mississippi, but now live in the Indian Territory..