Town is often used adjectively or in combination with other words; as,
town clerk, or town-clerk; town- crier, or town crier; townhall,
town-hall, or town hall; townhouse, town house, or town- house.
Syn. — Village; hamlet. See Village.
Town clerk, an office who keeps the records of a town, and enters its
official proceedings. See Clerk. — Town cress (Bot.), the garden cress,
or peppergrass. Dr. Prior. — Town house. (a) A house in town, in
distinction from a house in the country. (b) See Townhouse. — Town
meeting, a legal meeting of the inhabitants of a town entitled to vote,
for the transaction of public bisiness. [U. S.] — Town talk, the common
talk of a place; the subject or topic of common conversation.
Town"-cri`er (?), n. A town officer who makes proclamations to the
people; the public crier of a town.
Towned (?), a. Having towns; containing many towns. [Obs.] Hakluyt.
Town"hall` (?), n. A public hall or building, belonging to a town,
where the public offices are established, the town council meets, the
people assemble in town meeting, etc.
Town"house` (?), n. A building devoted to the public used of a town; a
townhall.
Town"ish, a. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the
town. [R.] Turbervile.
Town"less, a. Having no town. Howell.
Town"let (?), n. A small town. North Brit. Rev.
Towns"folk` (?), n. The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants
of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople.
Town"ship (?), n. 1. The district or territory of a town.
In the United States, many of the States are divided into townships of
five, six, seven, or perhaps ten miles square, and the inhabitants of
such townships are invested with certain powers for regulating their
own affairs, such as repairing roads and providing for the poor. The
township is subordinate to the county.
2. In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of
territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.