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Belonging to, or resembling, a city. "Smoky, citied towns" [R.] Drayton.

An inhabitant of a city; a townsman. Shak.

A large town.

Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter. "Hold still thy clatter." Towneley Myst. (15 th Cent. ). Throw by your clatter And handle the matter. B. Jonson

mployed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk. The clerk of the crown . . . withdrew the bill. Strype.

palm off. [R.] Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces. J. Dennis To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. Swift.

A kind of French brandy, so called from the town of Cognac.

ade. (c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for support; as, to come upon the town. (d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid treasure.

bank cheks, etc. -- Commercial traveler, an agent of a wholesale house who travels from town to town to solicit orders.

entative body, of a city or other munisipal corporation. -- Common crier, the crier of a town or city. -- Common divisor (Math.), a number or quantity that divides two or more numbers or quantities without a remainder; a common measure. -- Common gender (Gram.), the gender comprising words that may be of either the…

, answering to the plaintiff at common law. He shall forfeit one moiety to the use of the town, and the other moiety to the use of the complainant. Statutes of Mass.

They strive with their own hearts and keep them down, In complaisance to all the fools in town. Young.

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

Constituted authorities, the officers of government, collectively, as of a nation, city, town, etc. Bartlett.

An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country. These sums, . . . and the forced contributions paid by luckless peasants, enabled him to keep his straggling troops together. Motley.

ed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town.

ass correction. Correction line (Surv.), a parallel used as a new base line in laying out township in the government lands of the United States. The adoption at certain intervals of a correction line is necessitated by the convergence of of meridians, and the statute requirement that the townships must be squares. --…

The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.

Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town. As they walked, on their way into the country. Mark xvi. 12 (Rev. Ver. ). God made the covatry, and man made the town. Cowper. Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country. Macualay.

A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.