Definition of local

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Local (n.) On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published..

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Cosmopolite :: Cosmopolite (a.) Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.
Locality :: Locality (n.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
Bird''s-nest :: Bird's-nest (n.) The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups..
Desert :: Desert (v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country..
Cephalization :: Cephalization (n.) Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development..
Localism :: Localism (n.) The state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place.
Sectionalize :: Sectionalize (v. t.) To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests.
Sack :: Sack (n.) A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels..
Stand :: Stand (n.) To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation..
Seiches :: Seiches (n. pl.) Local oscillations in level observed in the case of some lakes, as Lake Geneva..
Birlaw :: Birlaw (n.) A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law.
Scene :: Scene (n.) So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes..
Local :: Local (n.) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.
Locus :: Locus (n.) A place; a locality.
Sensorium :: Sensorium (n.) The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations..
Flora :: Flora (n.) The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants..
Topic :: Topic (n.) An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc..
Toadstone :: Toadstone (n.) A local name for the igneous rocks of Derbyshire, England; -- said by some to be derived from the German todter stein, meaning dead stone, that is, stone which contains no ores..
Localization :: Localization (n.) Act of localizing, or state of being localized..
Vellication :: Vellication () A local twitching, or convulsive motion, of a muscular fiber, especially of the face..
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