*town*

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Sierra Leone. Population (2000) = 1, 300, 000. [ PJC ]

n. the town (or city) where a person was born or grew up or has his principal residence; as, he never went back to his hometown again. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Bot.) The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. happening in or being of another town or city; as, an out-of-town tryout. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. toun, tun, AS. tun inclosure, fence, village, town; akin to D. tuin a garden, G. zaun a hadge, fence, OHG. zun, Icel. tun an inclosure, homestead, house, Ir. & Gael. dun a fortress, W. din. Cf. Down, adv. & prep., Dune, tine to inclose. ] 1. Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [ Obs. ] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [ Obs. ] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls. [ Obs. ] Palsgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop. [ Eng. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities. [ 1913 Webster ]

God made the country, and man made the town. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The court end of London; -- commonly with the. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country. [ 1913 Webster ]

Always hankering after the diversions of the town. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stunned with his giddy larum half the town. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The same form of expressions is used in regard to other populous towns. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Town is often used adjectively or in combination with other words; as, town clerk, or town-clerk; town-crier, or town crier; townhall, town-hall, or town hall; townhouse, town house, or town-house. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Village; hamlet. See Village. [ 1913 Webster ]

Town clerk, an office who keeps the records of a town, and enters its official proceedings. See Clerk. --
Town cress (Bot.), the garden cress, or peppergrass. Dr. Prior. --
Town house. (a) A house in town, in distinction from a house in the country. (b) See Townhouse. --
Town meeting, a legal meeting of the inhabitants of a town entitled to vote, for the transaction of public bisiness. [ U. S. ] --
Town talk, the common talk of a place; the subject or topic of common conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to interactions between a college or university and the residents of the town in which the institution is located; as, a town and gown dispute. [ PJC ]

n. A town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having towns; containing many towns. [ Obs. ] Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A public hall or building, belonging to a town, where the public offices are established, the town council meets, the people assemble in town meeting, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town. [ R. ] Turbervile. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no town. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small town. North Brit. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The district or territory of a town. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the United States, many of the States are divided into townships of five, six, seven, or perhaps ten miles square, and the inhabitants of such townships are invested with certain powers for regulating their own affairs, such as repairing roads and providing for the poor. The township is subordinate to the county. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Townsmen [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A selectman, in New England. See Selectman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. Toward a town. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]