CANTONING

Verb

cantoning

present participle of canton

Anagrams

• nonacting

Source: Wiktionary

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CANTON

Can"ton, n.

Definition: A song or canto [Obs.] Write loyal cantons of contemned love. Shak.

Can"ton, n. Etym: [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.)

Definition: 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.] Etym: [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.)

Definition: To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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