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A suffix signifying dominion, jurisdiction; as, bishopric, the district over which a bishop exercises authority.
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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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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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Of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district; the ruridecanal intellect.
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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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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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The district or territory of a town.
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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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Villages; a district of villages.
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The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.
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The district under a Roman tetrarch; the office or jurisdiction of a tetrarch; a tetrarchate.
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The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.
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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 white wine made in the district of Sauterne, France.
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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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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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A district or a subvision of a vilayet.
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A district in charge of an excise officer.
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