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COMMUNITIES |
Towns |
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MEGALOPOLISES |
Towns |
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CITIES |
Large towns |
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PORTS |
Towns with harbours |
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PLACES |
Towns cities and countries |
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BYPASS |
Road that avoids busy towns |
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TOWNED |
Having towns; containing many towns. |
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CHIMNEYS |
There are stacks of them in industrial towns |
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HANSEATIC |
Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy. |
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PENSIONARY |
One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland. |
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UPLAND |
The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of
towns. |
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PODESTA |
A mayor, alderman, or other magistrate, in some towns of
Italy. |
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DEMOLISHER |
One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of
towns. |
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CASERN |
A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the
rampart; barracks. |
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RIPPER |
One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland
towns. |
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HANSARD |
A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under
2d Hanse. |
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FIREMAN |
A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a
member of a fire company. |
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MIDLAND |
Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or
seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants. |
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MOOR |
One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and
Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns. |
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AYUNTAMIENTO |
In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body
of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and
aldermen. |
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DRAINAGE |
The system of drains and their operation, by which
superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other
works. |
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TOPARCHY |
A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a
petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided
into ten toparchies. |
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DIVIDE |
To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition,
or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a
stream divides the towns. |
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FIFTEENTH |
A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on
towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the
personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at. |
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WAYWODE |
...various
Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or
provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and
Wa... |