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A tax or toll paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.

One who had charge of the wall of a town, or its repairs.

ong movable shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a fortified town.

n an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap. When they came to talk of places in town, you saw at once how I nailed them. Goldsmith.

Of or pertaining to Nice, a town of Asia Minor, or to the ecumenial council held there A. D. 325. Nicene Creed (, a summary of Christian faith, composed and adopted by the Council of Nice, against Arianism, A. D. 325, altered and confirmed by the Council of Constantinople, A. D. 381, and by subsequent councils.…

Full of noise. "The noisy town." Dryden.

Denoting nearness or distance, either in space or time; from; as, within a league of the town; within an hour of the appointed time.

Of or pertaining to a town. Howell.

Convenience of situation; fitness. [Obs.] Hull, a town of great strength and opportunity, both to sea and land affairs. Milton.

A parish lying without the walls of, or in a remote part of, a town. Graunt.

A harbor or port at some distance from the chief town or seat of trade. Macaulay.

ote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usually in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town. Wordsworth. The outskirts of his march of mystery. Keble.

A street remote from the center of a town. Johnson.

Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.

o as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. [Titan] with burning eye did hotly overlook them. Shak.

To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away. Poor Stella must pack off to town Swift. You shall pack, And never more darken my doors again. Tennyson.

ungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came. [Written also pandoor.] Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. Campbell.

A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like. Brande & C.

A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, inclosed and kept for ornament and recreation; as, Hyde Park in London; Central Park in New York.

e who patrols; a watchman; especially, a policeman who patrols a particular precinct of a town or city.