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Portgrave :: Portgrave () In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve..

Saddle :: Saddle (v. t.) Hence: To fix as a charge or burden upon; to load; to encumber; as, to saddle a town with the expense of bridges and highways..

Inn :: Inn (n.) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn..

Cit :: Cit (n.) A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously.

Mocha :: Mocha (n.) A seaport town of Arabia, on the Red Sea..

Townward :: Townward (adv.) Alt. of Townward.

Stramony :: Stramonium (n.) A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed..

Pensionary :: Pensionary (n.) One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.

Corporate :: Corporate (a.) Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town..

Sewerage :: Sewerage (n.) The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers..

Drawbridge :: Drawbridge (n.) A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal..

Townpeople :: Townpeople (n.) The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk..

Cannonade :: Cannonade (n.) The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance..

Issue :: Issue (v. i.) To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers..

Autonomasy :: Autonomasy (n.) The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, He has gone to town, for, He has gone to London..

Police :: Police (n.) A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough..

Townsman :: Townsman (n.) A selectman, in New England. See Selectman..

Hyblaean :: Hyblaean (a.) Pertaining to Hybla, an ancient town of Sicily, famous for its bees..

Citizen :: Citizen (n.) An inhabitant of a city; a townsman.

Town-crier :: Town-crier (n.) A town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town.

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