CANTONS
Noun
cantons
plural of canton
Anagrams
• Conants, cannots, noncats
Source: Wiktionary
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