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Definition of Cantan

Canton (1,800), chief commercial city and port of Southern China; stands on a river almost on the seaboard, 90 m. NW. of Hong-Kong, and is a healthy town, but with a heavy rainfall; it is surrounded by walls, has narrow crooked streets, 125 temples, mostly Buddhist, and two pagodas, 10 and 13 centuries old respectively; great part of the population live in boats on the river; the fancy goods, silk, porcelain, ivory, and metal work are famous; its river communication with the interior has fostered an extensive commerce; exports, tea, silk, sugar, cassia, &c.
- Wikipedia

Can"ton (?), n. A song or canto [Obs.]

Write loyal cantons of contemned love.
Shak.

Can"ton, n. [F. canton, augm. of OF. cant edge, corner. See 1st Cant.] 1. A small portion; a division; a compartment.

That little canton of land called the "English pale"
Davies.

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.

2. A small community or clan.

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.

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.

The king gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms.
Evelyn.

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.

They canton out themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world.
Locke.

2. (Mil.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

  • One of the states making up the Confederation of Switzerland.
  • An subdivision of an arrondissement of France.
  • A subdivision of Luxembourg (the country).
  • A subdivision of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    French
  • canton (of Switzerland, France or Luxembourg)


Canton

  • An alternative (former) name for Guangzhou in China.

    French
  • Canton

    Italian
  • (form of cantone used in names of cantons) the canton of
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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