canton6 definitions found canton - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : Canton \Can"ton\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cantoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Cantoning.] [Cf. F.cantonner.] 1. To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division. [1913 Webster] They canton out themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mil.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops. [1913 Webster] Canton \Can"ton\, n. A song or canto [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Write loyal cantons of contemned love. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Canton \Can"ton\, n. [F. canton, augm. of OF. cant edge, corner. See 1st Cant.] 1. A small portion; a division; a compartment. [1913 Webster] That little canton of land called the "English pale" --Davies. [1913 Webster] There is another piece of Holbein's, . . . in which, in six several cantons, the several parts of our Savior's passion are represented. --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster] 2. A small community or clan. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] 4. (Her.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side. [1913 Webster] The king gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster] canton - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) : Canton n 1: a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port [syn: Guangzhou, Kuangchou, Kwangchow, Canton] 2: a small administrative division of a country v 1: provide housing for (military personnel) [syn: quarter, billet, canton] 2: divide into cantons, of a country canton - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) : Canton, CT Zip code(s): 06019 Canton, GA (city, FIPS 12988) Location: 34.24900 N, 84.49019 W Population (1990): 4817 (2026 housing units) Area: 33.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30114 Canton, IL (city, FIPS 11007) Location: 40.56255 N, 90.04026 W Population (1990): 13922 (5907 housing units) Area: 18.9 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61520 Canton, KS (city, FIPS 10475) Location: 38.38612 N, 97.42987 W Population (1990): 794 (342 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67428 Canton, MA Zip code(s): 02021 Canton, ME Zip code(s): 04221 Canton, MI (CDP, FIPS 13110) Location: 42.30851 N, 83.48219 W Population (1990): 57047 (20309 housing units) Area: 93.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48187, 48188 Canton, MN (city, FIPS 9802) Location: 43.53008 N, 91.92944 W Population (1990): 362 (177 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55922 Canton, MO (city, FIPS 11134) Location: 40.12967 N, 91.52385 W Population (1990): 2623 (973 housing units) Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 63435 Canton, MS (city, FIPS 11100) Location: 32.61065 N, 90.03108 W Population (1990): 10062 (3592 housing units) Area: 17.7 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 39046 Canton, NC (town, FIPS 10240) Location: 35.54614 N, 82.84301 W Population (1990): 3790 (1854 housing units) Area: 9.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 28716 Canton, NY (village, FIPS 12331) Location: 44.59659 N, 75.17254 W Population (1990): 6379 (1725 housing units) Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 13617 Canton, OH (city, FIPS 12000) Location: 40.81220 N, 81.37327 W Population (1990): 84161 (36527 housing units) Area: 52.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 44702, 44703, 44704, 44705, 44706, 44708, 44710, 44714, 44721 Canton, OK (town, FIPS 11600) Location: 36.05605 N, 98.58862 W Population (1990): 632 (358 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73724 Canton, PA (borough, FIPS 11160) Location: 41.65699 N, 76.85303 W Population (1990): 1966 (837 housing units) Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 17724 Canton, SD (city, FIPS 9500) Location: 43.30317 N, 96.58095 W Population (1990): 2787 (1180 housing units) Area: 7.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57013 Canton, TX (city, FIPS 12496) Location: 32.54754 N, 95.86385 W Population (1990): 2949 (1322 housing units) Area: 9.9 sq km (land), 1.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 75103 Canton, WI Zip code(s): 54868 canton - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : 147 Moby Thesaurus words for "canton": Kreis, achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, archbishopric, archdiocese, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, arrondissement, azure, bailiwick, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, bishopric, blazon, blazonry, bordure, borough, broad arrow, cadency mark, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, city, coat of arms, cockatrice, commune, congressional district, constablewick, coronet, county, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, departement, device, difference, differencing, diocese, district, duchy, eagle, electoral district, electorate, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, government, griffin, gules, gyron, hamlet, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, hundred, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lion, lozenge, magistracy, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, metropolis, metropolitan area, motto, mullet, nombril point, oblast, octofoil, okrug, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, parish, pean, pheon, precinct, principality, province, purpure, quarter, quartering, region, riding, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shield, shire, shrievalty, soke, spread eagle, stake, state, subordinary, tenne, territory, tincture, torse, town, township, tressure, unicorn, vair, vert, village, wapentake, ward, wreath, yale |