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Rigorous; stringent; harsh. [Obs.] Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.

Sudden display; flash; glitter. [R.] A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.

Strictly. [Obs.] Foxe.

A district or neighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night. [Colloq. or Cant]

To divide into new districts.

country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.

Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.

Productive of, or affected by, ague; as, the aguish districts of England. T. Arnold. A"gu*ish*ness, n.

The district or ward of an alderman.

ch came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.

A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness.

The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice. Every diocese is divided into archdeaconries. Blackstone.

Pertaining to Argolis, a district in the Peloponnesus.

One living in the back or outlying districts of a community. The English backsettlers of Leinster and Munster. Macaulay.

The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. Ballot box, a box for receiving ballots.

perial interdict by which political rights and privileges, as those of a prince, city, or district, were taken away.

A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.

The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.

on, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner. Brande & C.