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District :: District (n.) Any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract.

Chorometry :: Chorometry (n.) The art of surveying a region or district.

Provincial :: Provincial (n.) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order..

Cacolet :: Cacolet (n.) A chair, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army..

Staple :: Staple (n.) A district granted to an abbey.

Argolic :: Argolic (a.) Pertaining to Argolis, a district in the Peloponnesus..

Ticketing :: Ticketing (n.) A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.

Farm :: Farm (a. & n.) A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.

Municipality :: Municipality (n.) A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village..

Limiter :: Limiter (n.) A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain district..

Circuit :: Circuit (n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.

Percheron :: Percheron (n.) One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman..

Canvass :: Canvass (n.) To go trough, with personal solicitation or public addresses; as, to canvass a district for votes; to canvass a city for subscriptions..

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..

Parish :: Parish (n.) The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc..

Macassar Oil :: Macassar oil () A kind of oil formerly used in dressing the hair; -- so called because originally obtained from Macassar, a district of the Island of Celebes. Also, an imitation of the same, of perfumed castor oil and olive oil..

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

Tequila :: Tequila (n.) An intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the district of Tequila, Mexico..

Calcavella :: Calcavella (n.) A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos.

Bey :: Bey (n.) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis..

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