Definition of city

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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..

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Babel :: Babel (n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place..
Guile :: Guile (n.) Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
Unveracity :: Unveracity (n.) Want of veracity; untruthfulness; as, unveracity of heart..
Awakening :: Awakening (a.) Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn..
Byzantine :: Byzantine (n.) A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople..
Rusticity :: Rusticity (n.) The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.
Idiotism :: Idiotism (n.) Lack of knowledge or mental capacity; idiocy; foolishness.
Launch :: Launch (n.) The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like..
Copper :: Copper (n.) A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze..
Lead :: Lead (n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide..
Encircle :: Encircle (v. t.) To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city..
Childishness :: Childishness (n.) The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
Hydrogalvanic :: Hydrogalvanic (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or consisting of, electricity evolved by the action or use of fluids; as, hydrogalvanic currents..
Desolate :: Desolate (v. t.) To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city..
Irritation :: Irritation (n.) The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation..
Resino-electric :: Resino-electric (a.) Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity.
Subdue :: Subdue (v. t.) To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears..
Astucity :: Astucity (n.) Craftiness; astuteness.
Tubby :: Tubby (a.) Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin..
Ale Silver :: Ale silver () A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.
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