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ovince; as, the procurator of Judea. Procurator fiscal (Scots Law), public prosecutor, or district attorney.

To look over; to explore or examine for something; as, to prospect a district for gold.

A region of country; a tract; a district. Over many a tract of heaven they marched, and many a province wide. Milton. Other provinces of the intellectual world. I. Watts.

is order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.

A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality. M. Arnold.

Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood. "The purlieus of St. James." brokers had been incessantly plying for custom in the purlieus of the court. Macaulay.

A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris.

incorporated, esp. the official of certain municipal divisions such as counties, schools districts, and the towns of some States of the United States, certain church officials, as a churchwarden, etc.

A native prince or king; also, a landholder or person of importance in the agricultural districts. [India]

To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.

A region or district governed. [Obs.] Spenser.

One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract. If thence he 'scappe, into whatever world, Or unknown region. Milton.…

containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district.

Developed with steep slopes inside a district previously worn down nearly to base level; -- said of topography, or features of topography, as valleys, hills, etc.

ancestor; an attorney represents his client in court; a member of Congress represents his district in Congress.

Parliament to facilitate the recovery of small debts from any inhabitant or trader in the district defined by the act; -- now mostly abolished. (b) A court of equity for the relief of such persons as addressed the sovereign by supplication; -- now abolished. It was inferior to the Court of Chancery. [Eng.] Brande & C.…

To make a reqisition on or for; as, to requisition a district for forage; to requisition troops.

A suffix signifying dominion, jurisdiction; as, bishopric, the district over which a bishop exercises authority.

A district in charge of an excise officer. [Eng.]

ff. Ruffed grouse (Zoöl.), a North American grouse (Bonasa umbellus) common in the wooded districts of the Northern United States. The male has a ruff of brown or black feathers on each side of the neck, and is noted for the loud drumming sound he makes during the breeding season. Called also tippet grouse, partridge,…