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ng a revenue district or dependency the native proprietor of which is responsible for the collection and payment of the public revenue due from it. [India]

One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.

te of the capital of Amenophis IV., whose archive chamber was discovered there in 1887. A collection of tablets (called the Tel-el-Amarna, or the Amarna, tablets) was found here, forming the Asiatic correspondence (Tel-el-Amarna letters) of Amenophis IV. and his father, Amenophis III., written in cuneiform characters.…

A collection of tents; an encampment. [Obs.] Drayton.

Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, and the like.

The number four; a collection of four things; a quaternion.

The language of the ancient Germans; the Teutonic languages, collectively.

The character or dignity of a thane; also, thanes, collectively. J. R. Green.

A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13.

The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.

Tiles, collectively.

A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding. So they prepared timber . . . to build the house. 1 Kings v. 18. Many of the timb…

The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber.

One who collects tithes. Milton.

To collect, as a toll. Shak.

One who receives or collects toll; a toll gatherer. Cowper.

Any white regular soldier of the British army; also, such soldiers collectively; -- said to be fictitious name inserted in the models given to soldiers to guide them in filling out account blanks, etc.

Ton miles collectively; esp., the total ton miles performed by a railroad in a given period.

A native or inhabitant of Turin; collectively, the people of Turin.

That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.