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Canton :: Canton (n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement..

Canton :: Canton (v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division..

Canton :: Canton (n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side..

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..

Avoyer :: Avoyer (n.) A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland.

Cantoned :: Cantoned (imp. & p. p.) of Canto.

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble..

Senate :: Senate (n.) The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons..

Duan :: Duan (n.) A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.

Grisons :: Grisons (n. pl.) The largest and most eastern of the Swiss cantons.

Decani :: Decani (a.) Used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side..

Cumshaw :: Cumshaw (n.) A present or bonus; -- originally applied to that paid on ships which entered the port of Canton.

Incanton :: Incanton (v. t.) To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community..

Cantor :: Cantor (n.) A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor.

Canton :: Canton (n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment.

Canton Flannel :: Canton flannel () See Cotton flannel.

Counterpoint :: Counterpoint (n.) The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melod.

Fit :: Fit (n.) In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus..

Canton :: Canton (n.) A small community or clan.

Cantonal :: Cantonal (a.) Of or pertaining to a canton or cantons; of the nature of a canton.

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