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Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. Latham.

na). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.

commissioned by a bishop to have the oversight of the churches and preachers in a certain district. -- Ruling elder, a lay presbyter or member of a Presbyterian church session. Schaff.

rtain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall; as, an elvan course.

Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.

Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.

In or of the country. [R.] Epichorial superstitions from every district of Europe. De Quincey.

A breed of ponies native to the Exmoor district.

A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government. The province was devided into twelve farms. Burke.

A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.

Composed of states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland.

The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary. Churches and mobasteries in Spain are franchises for criminals. London Encyc.

To divide (a State) into districts for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advantage over its opponent. [Political Cant, U. S.]

A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made. W. E. Aytoun.

of a board appointed or elected to care for the relief of the poor within a township, or district.

A district on the west coast of Africa (formerly noted for its export of gold and slaves) after which the Guinea fowl, Guinea grass, Guinea peach, etc., are named.

y, also in Cape Colony, a council to assist a local magistrate in the government of rural districts; hence, also, a member of such a council.

The land or region lying behind the coast district. The term is used esp. with reference to the so-called doctrine of the hinterland, sometimes advanced, that occupation of the coast supports a claim to an exclusive right to occupy, from time to time, the territory lying inland of the coast.

of a fu, or department, or of an independent chow; also, the seat of government of such a district.

A district of country hunted over. Every landowner within the hunt. London Field.