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A suffix signifying dominion, jurisdiction; as, bishopric, the district over which a bishop exercises authority.
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Villages; a district of villages.
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An exhibition of arms. according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; -- formerly made at certain seasons in each district.
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A venomous two-winged African fly (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is very poisonous, and even fatal, to horses and cattle, but harmless to men. It renders extensive districts in which it abounds uninhabitable during certain seasons of the year.
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The right which the owner of a mill possesses, by contract or law, to compel the tenants of a certain district, or of his sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding.
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A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.
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The district under a Roman tetrarch; the office or jurisdiction of a tetrarch; a tetrarchate.
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A district or a subvision of a vilayet.
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Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus Halmaturus, native of Australia and Tasmania, especially the smaller species, as the brush kangaroo (H. Bennettii) and the pademelon (H. thetidis). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains.
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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.
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The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.
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A white wine made in the district of Sauterne, France.
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To divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives.
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Of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district; the ruridecanal intellect.
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The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.
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A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc.
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A district in charge of an excise officer.
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The district or territory of a town.
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