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onry in a conventual chapter. Regular canoness, one bound by the poverty, and observing a strict rule of life. -- Secular canoness, one allowed to hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she chose to remain in the chapter.

A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.

To divide into cantons or small districts.

A district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales. [Written also kantry.]

e thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote. I have made careful search on all hands, and canvassed the matter with all possible diligence. Woodward.

A song or air for one or more voices, of Provençal origin, resembling, though not strictly, the madrigal.

Power, or command, over a certain district; chieftainship. [Obs.]

A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.

Of or pertaining to the ancient Celtiberia (a district in Spain lying between the Ebro and the Tagus) or its inhabitants the Celtiberi (Celts of the river Iberus). -- n.

Behavior regulated by strict etiquette; a formal method of performing acts of civility; forms of civility prescribed by custom or authority. Ceremony was but devised at first To set a gloss on . . . hollow welcomes . . . But where there is true friendship there needs none. Shak. Al ceremonies are in themselves very sil…

er than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personifed. It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of a…

ntended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.

ering a prefecture of China; a prefect, supervising the civil business of the hsiens or districts comprised in his fu (which see).

An official having charge of a hsien, or administrative district, in China; a district magistrate, responsible for good order in his hsien (which see), and having jurisdiction in its civil and criminal cases.

A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.

n. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter. [Written also Chondropterygia.]

n the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.

One who describes or makes a map of a district or region. "The chorographers of Italy." Sir T. Browne.

the mapping or description of a region or district. The chorography of their provinces. Sir T. Browne.

The art of surveying a region or district.