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Native sulphate of ammonia, found in volcanic districts; -- so named from Mascagni, who discovered it.

A class of claret wines, including several varieties, from the district of Médoc in the department of Gironde.

a Montessori while teaching in the "Houses of Childhood" (schools in the poorest tenement districts of Rome, Italy), and first fully described by her in 1909. Leading features are freedom for physical activity (no stationary desks and chairs), informal and individual instruction, the very early development of writing,…

A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot. J. R. Green.

fshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reëstablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Coun…

aving a woody pulp and a large clingstone pit, growing in the mountainous and high-valley districts around the city of Moron, in Spain.

A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.

A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.

ens; marshy. [R.] Paludal fever, malarial fever; -- so called because generated in marshy districts.

One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.

A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America.

The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.

Quarter; region; district; -- usually in the plural. "The uttermost part of the heaven." Neh. i. 9. All parts resound with tumults, plaints, and fears. Dryden.

To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.

A district within which one is authorized to make a tour of inspection. "The . . . bounds of his own perambulation." [Obs.] Holyday.

One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.

A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.

Of or pertaining to an extensive marshy district between Rome and Naples. [Written also Pomptine.]

A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct.

A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in au…