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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Garrison :: Garrison (v. t.) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town..
Muscule :: Muscule (n.) A long movable shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a fortified town.
City :: City (n.) A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see..
Ripper :: Ripper (n.) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.
District :: District (n.) A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc..
Portgrave :: Portgrave () In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve..
Issue :: Issue (v. i.) To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers..
Pensionary :: Pensionary (n.) One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.
Bocking :: Bocking (n.) A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made..
Limit :: Limit (v. t.) That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor..
Clerk :: Clerk (n.) One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk..
Oppidan :: Oppidan (a.) Of or pertaining to a town.
Talk :: Talk (n.) Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town..
Jamestown Weed :: "Jamestown weed () The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura..
Birthplace :: Birthplace (n.) The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense..
Oppidan :: Oppidan (n.) An inhabitant of a town.
Cantonment :: Cantonment (n.) A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters..
Philister :: Philister (n.) A Philistine; -- a cant name given to townsmen by students in German universities.
Townsmen :: Townsmen (pl. ) of Townsma.
Townsman :: Townsman (n.) An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another.
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