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Wapentake :: Wapentake (n.) In some northern counties of England, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds..

Barony :: Barony (n.) In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner..

Limitation :: Limitation (v. t.) A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district..

Absenteeism :: Absenteeism (n.) The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.

Collectorate :: Collectorate (n.) The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.

Dominion :: Dominion (n.) That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions..

Localism :: Localism (n.) A method of speaking or acting peculiar to a certain district; a local idiom or phrase.

Country :: Country (adv.) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.

Prospect :: Prospect (v. t.) To look over; to explore or examine for something; as, to prospect a district for gold..

Chorography :: Chorography (n.) the mapping or description of a region or district.

Legation :: Legation (n.) A district under the jurisdiction of a legate.

Adventitious :: Adventitious (a.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.

Requisition :: Requisition (v. t.) To make a reqisition on or for; as, to requisition a district for forage; to requisition troops..

Walk :: Walk (n.) The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk..

Glenlivet :: Glenlivet (n.) A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made..

Ward :: Ward (n.) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city..

Cantonize :: Cantonize (v. i.) To divide into cantons or small districts.

Patrol :: Patrol (v. i.) Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol..

Patrol :: Patrol (v. i.) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.

Circle :: Circle (n.) A territorial division or district.

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