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they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing." Bancroft.

A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter. Go fetch us a light buffet. Townely Myst.

A fortified town. [Obs.]

An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. Blackstone.

A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.

ibution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.

A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.

An incorporated town. See 1st Borough.

An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village.

non and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted towm. Prescott.

A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters.

The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis. "A busy and splendid capital" Macauly.

east. He turned to see the carcass of the lion. Judges xiv. 8. This kept thousands in the town whose carcasses went into the great pits by cartloads. De Foe.

To get possession of by force; to capture. The town would have been carried in the end. Bacon.

A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks. Bescherelle.

Given as a pledge or as security. He hated Barnevelt, for his getting the cautionary towns out of his hands. Bp. Burnet.

A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.

he close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology.

Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant. [Obs.] "Circulatorious jugglers." Barrow.

A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously. "Insulted as a cit". Johnson Which past endurance sting the tender cit. Emerson.