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The collective body of constables in any town, district, or country.

A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district.

another in a legislative assembly; -- correlative to representative. The electors in the district of a representative in Congress, or in the legislature of a State, are termed his constituents. Abbot. To appeal from the representatives to the constituents. Macaulay.

sanitaire (kd" s Etym: [F., sanitary cordon], a line of troops or military posts around a district infected with disease, to cut off communication, and thus prevent the disease from spreading.

The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.

A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. [Eng.] W. Black. Blackmore.

The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.

end over a state or kingdom. -- Particular customs, those which are limited to a city or district; as, the customs of London.

der the bishop, the especial care and inspection of the clergy within certain parishes or districts of the diocese.

of deaths to the population. At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts. Darwin. -- Death rattle, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a dying person. -- Death's door, the boundary of life; the partition dividing life from death. -- Death stroke, a stroke causing death. -- Death throe,…

A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece.

A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.

alled Corps Législatif. Its members, called deputies, are elected by the people voting in districts.

The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority. [Frequently, but improperly, spelt diocess.]

distributes; dealing out. Distributing past office, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.

cal distribution, the natural arrangements of animals and plants in particular regions or districts.

One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.

That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.

of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted. Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year. Marshall.

To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select. Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples. Holwell.