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adv. & prep.
A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country.
pl.
of Territory
adv.
In regard to territory; by means of territory.
n.
In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province.
n.
The territory or authority of a seignior, or lord.
n.
A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.
a.
Possessed of territory.
v. t.
To reduce to the condition of a territory.
n.
A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
n.
In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.
a.
Of or pertaining to territory or land; as, territorial limits; territorial jurisdiction.
n.
A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
n.
A territory held in vassalage.
n.
The territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
v. t.
To enlarge by extension of territory.
a.
Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.
n.
Native boric acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence.
n.
Formerly, that part of the United States west of the Alleghany mountains; now, commonly, the whole region west of the Mississippi river; esp., that part which is north of the Indian Territory, New Mexico, etc. Usually with the definite article.
n.
The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company.
n.
The district or territory of a town.
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