Definition of town

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Town (adv. & prep.) The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways..

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Banlieue :: Banlieue (n.) The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city..
Chazy Epoch :: Chazy epoch () An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology..
Tollbooth :: Tollbooth (n.) In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail..
Hanseatic :: Hanseatic (a.) Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy..
Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop..
Soc :: Soc (n.) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands.
Terminus :: Terminus (n.) Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place..
Uptown :: Uptown (a.) Situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city; as, a uptown street, shop, etc.; uptown society..
Casern :: Casern (n.) A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks..
Tramway :: Tramway (n.) A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad..
Rochelle :: Rochelle (n.) A seaport town in France.
Sewerage :: Sewerage (n.) The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers..
Fire :: Fire (v. i.) To discharge artillery or firearms; as, they fired on the town..
Murenger :: Murenger (n.) One who had charge of the wall of a town, or its repairs..
Fireman :: Fireman (n.) A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.
Hansard :: Hansard (n.) A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse.
Inn :: Inn (n.) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn..
Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town..
Courtehouse :: Courtehouse (n.) A county town; -- so called in Virginia and some others of the Southern States.
Intercommon :: Intercommon (v. t.) To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc..
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