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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Bar :: Bar (n.) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.
Water-white :: Water-white (n.) A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribaea) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst..
Purlieu :: Purlieu (n.) Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood..
Circar :: Circar (n.) A district, or part of a province. See Sircar..
Celtiberian :: Celtiberian (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Celtiberia (a district in Spain lying between the Ebro and the Tagus) or its inhabitants the Celtiberi (Celts of the river Iberus).
Patrol :: Patrol (v. i.) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
Caimacam :: Caimacam (n.) The governor of a sanjak or district in Turkey.
Walk :: Walk (n.) The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk..
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..
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..
Enzootic :: Enzootic (a.) Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.
Chartism :: Chartism (n.) The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter..
Collectorate :: Collectorate (n.) The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
Commandery :: Commandery (n.) A district under the administration of a military commander or governor.
Chorometry :: Chorometry (n.) The art of surveying a region or district.
Chorographer :: Chorographer (n.) One who describes or makes a map of a district or region.
Diocese :: Diocese (n.) The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
Bishopric :: Bishopric (n.) A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends.
Thanage :: Thanage (n.) The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.
Waterlandian :: Waterlandian (n.) One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland.
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