Definition of district

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District (n.) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.

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Draff :: Draff (n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted..
Township :: Township (n.) The district or territory of a town.
Thanage :: Thanage (n.) The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.
Locality :: Locality (n.) Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial..
Canvass :: Canvass (n.) To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote..
Colony :: Colony (n.) The district or country colonized; a settlement.
Livonian :: Livonian (a.) Of or pertaining to Livonia, a district of Russia near the Baltic Sea..
Lungoor :: Lungoor (n.) A long-tailed monkey (Semnopithecus schislaceus), from the mountainous districts of India..
Bison :: Bison (n.) The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers..
Cantonize :: Cantonize (v. i.) To divide into cantons or small districts.
Aldermanry :: Aldermanry (n.) The district or ward of an alderman.
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..
Parish :: Parish (n.) The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc..
District :: District (a.) Rigorous; stringent; harsh.
Circar :: Circar (n.) A district, or part of a province. See Sircar..
Commandery :: Commandery (n.) A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory..
Drainage :: Drainage (n.) Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc..
Guinea :: Guinea (n.) A district on the west coast of Africa (formerly noted for its export of gold and slaves) after which the Guinea fowl, Guinea grass, Guinea peach, etc., are named..
Limiter :: Limiter (n.) A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain 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.
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